This includes €50 million forWiFi4EU, aiming at helping European communities offer free WiFi hotspots to any citizen, leading to a total envelope of €120 million. €2,5 billion to support the ongoing work in the areas of migration, security and external border control, including the setting up of the European Border and Coast Guard, the EU Agency for Asylum, and the reform of the Common European Asylum System. €1,4 billion for the European Fund for Sustainable Development, under the 'External Investment Plan' (see Fact Sheet), which will support investments in regions outside the EU and will seek private partners to address the root cause ...[+++]s of migration, while contributing to achieving other development goals; for migration partnerships, for macroeconomic financial assistance and for external lending in order to stabilise countries in the neighbourhood.

5. Deplores the repeated and tragic loss of life in the Mediterranean; condemns the reckless intervention policies that have contributed to socio-political instability in these countries of origin and exacerbated the transit of migrants by fuelling conflict and upheaval; stresses the urgent need for an in-depth analysis of how EU funds are spent, which should denounce any abuse related to their management; this analysis should cover all funding used to finance actions in the field of migration and asylum, border control, fighting smuggling and trafficking, and returns, as well as funds related to EU foreign and ...[+++]development policy;

1. Welcomes the publication of the 2012 progress reports for the ENP South and East countries, but regrets that, in most cases, the reports, as well as the events that followed, present a mixed picture of progress, stagnation and regression and describe the national situation without evaluating the programmes carried out by the Union or making concrete recommendations regarding the allocation of funds under the EU external instruments or development cooperation assistance and its influence on policy-making in the partner countries; takes the view that those reports should al ...[+++]so assess trends by containing data for previous years;

7. Asks for the cancellation of the external debt; calls for a study to be carried out with a view to the establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean Development and Cooperation Fund enabling populations to define local projects and monitor their implementation;

D. whereas the fisheries sector is more often the victim than the author of environmental imbalances within the marine ecosystem, given that such imbalances arise from a development model which is external to the fisheries sector and is based on the uncontrolled exploitation of the environment and coastal areas,

D. whereas the fisheries sector is more often the victim than the author of environmental imbalances within the marine ecosystem, given that such imbalances arise from a development model which is external to the fisheries sector and is based on the uncontrolled exploitation of the environment and the coastal areas,