EU Trust Fund for Africa adopts €90 million programme on protection of migrants and improved migration management in Libya

The EU Trust Fund for Africa upon proposal from the European Commission, adopted on the 12 April 2017 a €90 million programme to step up the protection of migrants and reinforce migration management in Libya.

High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini said: 'For the European Union, Libya and the Libyans have been and stay a top priority. We are working to promote a political solution to the Libyan crisis and to support the Libyan authorities on the many challenges they have to face, including the managing of the migration flows'.

Migrants transiting or remaining in Libya are facing increasingly dire conditions. The programme addresses the priorities set out by the European Commission in its Joint Communication Migration on the Central Mediterranean Route: Managing flows, saving lives in January 2017, confirmed and further developed by the Heads of State or Government in the Malta Declaration of 3 February 2017.

ESO: Information Guide: European Migration Challenges http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-european-migration-challenges/

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