EU Summit Grapples with Migration Money Feud and Tunisia Pact
EU countries are engaged in a dispute over granting billions in new funds to address the migration crisis, with Germany advocating for revitalizing ties with Turkey to manage asylum seekers and unauthorized border crossings. The debate over authorizing up to €10.5 billion in new funds for Turkey, Libya, and Tunisia has infiltrated the EU leaders' summit, with Germany opposing explicit mention of the funds in the summit conclusions. The issue highlights the dominance of migration on the political agenda and the challenges of managing the crisis as asylum applications rise and backlogs accumulate at European borders.