V4 earmark extra aid, staff for aid to Africa and dealing with immigration surge

The Visegrad Four group of Central European countries, comprising the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland, will collectively boost its aid for Africa by 400,000 euros, or around 11 million crowns, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka announced on Thursday. The four countries will also earmark 300 more people to help in the European institutions dealing with asylum policy and border protection. Sobotka, who is also representing Poland’s interests at the EU summit in Valetta, Malta, during its political changeover met with his Slovak and Hungarian counterparts in the margins of the meeting. The Czech Republic was originally earmarked to provide 600,000 for the new EU fund to help development in African countries likely to be the main sources of emigrants.

Author: Chris Johnstone