Human Trafficking: Tunisia Returns €60 million to The EU

Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed

Tunisia has returned €60 million ($63 million) provided by the EU in budgetary support, a sum which Tunisia’s president Kais Saied described last week as mere charity.

“The Commission has been informed that Tunisia returned the payment of €60 million,” the representative said.

“This does not change the fact that we continue working on the five pillars of the MoU,” they added, in reference to an agreement struck this summer which aims at containing departures of migrants by sea from Tunisia towards the bloc.

The package included €67 million for Tunisia’s coast guards to combat human traffickers and tighten border controls and €60 million in budgetary support, which was planned before this summer’s agreement.