NCFCA Policy Debate: MFF Funding Reallocation (NEG)

The multiannual financial framework (MFF) is a long-term budgeting process used by the EU to distribute money to EU countries.  AFF is concerned that funds for managing inflows of migrants are allocated years in advance, and thus don’t accurately keep up with current trends.  A country might be getting too much or too little money for today’s immigration needs because the statistics they’re using for the budget came from several years ago when the influx was much higher or lower.  This brief shows why none of that matters.  AFF’s own evidence source who says the budget process is messed up also says it wouldn’t matter anyway because countries with a lot of migrants won’t spend any money on them, and have even refused it when it was offered.  And the Status Quo already has an additional fund beyond MFF that provides flexible and emergency response whenever a sudden influx of migrants pops up, to give money to any Member State that faces a sudden need.