Special Report No 09/2016: EU external migration spending in Southern Mediterranean and Eastern Neighbourhood countries until 2014

Summary:

The EU’s spending on external migration policy in neighbourhood countries is struggling to demonstrate its effectiveness, according to the European Court of Auditors.

The auditors’ first report on external migration published in March 2016 highlights a number of spending weaknesses which need to be addressed to improve financial management: complexity of policy objectives and governance, impossibility of measuring policy results, limited success in returning migrants to their countries of origin and coordination problems between different EU bodies and between the European Commission and the Member States.

• Primary Source

ECA: News, 17.03.16: EU migration spending in neighbourhood countries http://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/NewsItem.aspx?nid=6677

ECA: Special Report No 9/2016: EU external migration spending in Southern Mediterranean and Eastern Neighbourhood countries until 2014 [PDF] http://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR16_09/SR_MIGRATION_EN.pdf

EUObserver, 17.03.16: EU-financed migration projects ignore human rights https://euobserver.com/migration/132724

EurActiv, 17.03.16: Auditors slam EU migration response as ‘incoherent’ http://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/auditors-slam-eu-migration-response-as-incoherent/

EurActiv, 11.04.16: EU aid an ineffective tool to end the migration crisis http://www.euractiv.com/section/development-policy/news/eu-aid-an-ineffective-tool-to-end-the-migration-crisis/

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