Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001717/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Nikolaos Anadiotis (NI)
Greece, the main gateway for large flows of illegal immigrants to the EU, bears – essentially alone – a disproportionate burden in managing them, (effective) border security and combating illegal immigration. Despite the Commission’s initiative for rapid, streamlined/simplified asylum and return procedures, the new Pact on Migration and Asylum and the Common Implementation Plan, the existing EU legal framework (a mechanism to facilitate arrivals), alongside the lack of cooperation and the non-binding return/readmission agreements with non-EU countries, make it difficult to return and remove illegal immigrants. Significant European funds are allocated, without sufficient controls on their management, for the reception and support of illegal immigrants.[1] NGOs operate with insufficient supervision.
In view of the above:
- 1.How, specifically, will the Commission strengthen controls on the management of European funds directed to structures and programmes for illegal immigrants, in order to ensure their transparency and proper use?
- 2.Will the Commission establish stricter (restrictive) rules for NGO action in the field of migration management, returning management to the competent state authorities in the first instance?
- 3.Does the Commission intend to promote a substantive revision of the European legal framework in order to address the above?
Submitted: 29.4.2025
- [1] Only 23.6 % of the EUR 407 million of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund for Greece in 2021-2027 concerns return activities, while the rest concerns asylum and integration actions: https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asylum/migrant-integration/migrant-integration-hub/eu-countries-updates-and-facts/migrant-integration-greece_en.