Europe tries to buy its way out of the migration crisis
Young Somali migrants at a detention centre in Libya. PHOTO | IRIN
What you need to know:
Under the Partnership Framework with third countries, which the council adopted, 16 countries of origin and transit for migrants will be pressured to cooperate with the EU’s goals on curbing migration. Their compliance is to be rewarded with various “incentives” including development aid and trade deals. Non-cooperation will be met with unspecified “negative incentives” – presumably the withholding of aid and trade.
