EU pledges €700m to help migrant crisis

Name: EU pledges €700m to help migrant crisis
Uploaded: 2016-03-02T14:18:24.000Z
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Description: The European Commission has adopted plans to disburse €700m (£543m; $760m) of emergency humanitarian funding between 2016-18 to help tackle the migrant crisis,

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The European Commission has adopted plans to disburse €700m (£543m; $760m) of emergency humanitarian funding between 2016-18 to help tackle the migrant crisis,

The crisis has caused tensions to surge, with Greece struggling to cope with the influx and the European Commission criticising Macedonia for using tear gas on a crowd of migrants.

Jonny Dymond reports.

Europe

2 March 2016