It has been initially set at 1.8 billion euros.
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Senegal’s President Macky Sall, who also chairs the Economic Community of West African States, and other African leaders told reporters the fund, as it now stood, was not enough.
Asking about the new border checks, Mr Löfvén said Sweden had received “far more” refugees than any other European Union country per capita.
Participants pose for photographs during the opening ceremony of the European Union’s (EU) Valletta Summit on Migration in Valletta, Malta, Nov. 11, 2015.
Now most are fleeing Syria or Iraq – not represented at the Malta summit – and passing through Turkey before reaching the European shore in Greece.
The meeting in Malta’s capital of Valletta was called after around 800 people died in April when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea after setting off for Europe from Libya.
The EU estimates that up to 3 million more people could arrive in Europe seeking sanctuary or jobs by 2017.
“Without effective control on our external borders, the Schengen rules will not survive”, said Donald Tusk.
The gathering of about 50 leaders from the two continents started on Wednesday and is the newest prong in the EU’s strategy to deal with the biggest refugee and migrant influx since the Second World War.
The arrivals have overwhelmed border authorities and countries simply to do not have the capacity to accommodate everyone.
The funding could also be used to tackle the “small-scale industry” selling rafts to desperate migrants trying to leave Turkey for Europe.
In Sweden, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said border controls would last until November 21 Sweden, with a population of 9.7 million, says migration authorities are overstretched and almost 200,000 asylum-seekers are expected this year.
“We need another system”.
Sweden’s decision to reinstate border controls for 10 days from Thursday and Slovenia’s move to roll out razor wire on its border with Croatia underlined again the divisions within the 28-nation bloc over how to respond to the crisis. “That is obvious”, he said.
It will focus on five particular areas – addressing the underlying causes of migration; establishing and managing legal migration channels; strengthening the protection of migrants and asylum seekers; combatting the trafficking and exploitation of migrants, and improving cooperation on repatriating migrants whose asylum claims are rejected.
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“If we keep going at this rate we will have relocated 160,000 people in 2101”, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said.
