European leaders agreed at
a Malta summit on migration Thursday to set up a 1.8 billion
euro trust fund to help African countries of origin and fight
people traffickers.
The EU funds will be supplemented by those of individual
countries which currently stand at 100 million euros - which
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said was "not
enough".
An EC spokesman said "the multiplication of barriers and
controls at borders should not permit talk of 'ending the
Schengen system'."
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said "we don't
need fences but joint action".
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