GETTY Brussels wants to prioritise migration as a spending priority

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Brussels decided in the mid-term review of the European Union’s seven-year budget it wants to refocus spending priorities to deal with migration and to boost job creation and economic growth. Plans to review the EU’s budget policy have been made more urgent by the UK’s decision to leave the bloc, depriving it of one of its main contributors. UKIP MEP Mike Hookem said the money "would not be used to effectively tackle the migration crisis because it is not being used to stop huge numbers of people crossing the Mediterranean".

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The money would not be used to effectively tackle the migration crisis because it is not being used to stop huge numbers of people crossing the Mediterranean UKIP MEP Mike Hookem

He added: "We heard yesterday from President Juncker the EU will be having a few hundred more border guards but these will be in EU countries. "But once these people have crossed into the EU and thrown away their identity documents they are not going back to the country they came from.

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GETTY The EU is struggling to find a solution to the ongoing migrant crisis

"The sooner we are out of the EU the sooner we can stop paying into this slush fund of waste and incompetence and instead focus our efforts on securing our own girders and properly funding public services. " From the extra money, £2.1bn will help to finance migration and security initiatives, which would include the establishment of a European Border and Coast Guard. Another £2bn would be for job creation and youth programs and for the European Fund for Strategic Investments, which aims to boost infrastructure and research spending. The Commission wants to spend £1.2bn on external aid to developing countries to address the causes of migration.

GETTY Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker