‘New’ funding for refugees must really mean extra money

In 2015, €9.7bn of the development assistance budget was used to deal with the influx of people into the EU, instead of paying for projects in those countries from where asylum-seekers had fled, says Jorge Moreira da Silva.

THE Syrian refugee crisis has focused attention on the management of the flow of people during times of crisis.

But poor countries may be paying a large, indirect price for rich countries’ efforts.