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EU Commission Establishes Trust Fund for Africa to Resolve Migrant Crisis

© REUTERS / Marko DjuricaHungarian police officers stop migrants as they try to escape on a field nearby a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary, September 8, 2015.
Hungarian police officers stop migrants as they try to escape on a field nearby a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary, September 8, 2015. - Sputnik International
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is expected to propose the establishment of an EU Trust Fund to provide financial support to African countries in an effort to tackle the ongoing migrant crisis, an EU source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

Migrants gesture at a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary, September 7, 2015. - Sputnik International
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BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — In recent months, Europe has been grappling with a major influx of migrants. The majority of the asylum seekers come from conflict-torn countries in the Middle East.

"Such a fund would improve the economic climate, [would help] to eliminate the causes of undocumented migration to the EU, preventing the departure of new migrants, as well as facilitating the process of return and reintegration in the homeland," the source said.

The trust fund will amount to more than 1.5 billion euro ($1.67 billion), according to the source.

According to the European Union's external border protection agency Frontex, the total number of refugees detected at the bloc's borders between January and July 2015 stands at over 340,000.

Last week, the head of the UN Refugee Agency, Antonio Guterres, said the EU member states must make "fundamental changes" in their refugee policy, including implementation of larger resettlement programs, humanitarian admission quotas and sponsorship programs.

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