The next EU budget may end up imposing tougher development aid conditions to force foreign states into complying on migration, warn some in civil society.
"There will be strong pressure from some member states to push for even stricter forms of conditionality linked to migration cooperation," said Eva Baluganti from Action Aid International, an NGO.
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.