EU approves Malta plan to spend €52 million on migration-related projects

Malta will be spending €52 million in EU funds allocated to it on migration-related projects, with the EU Commission having approved that allocation this week. 
The €52.3 million in funding will be extracted from a €2.25 billion pot that the EU allocated Malta in 2020 for its 2021-2017 funding round. 
It is the first funding allocation from that round that the EU Commission has approved for Malta.
The €52.3 million will come from the EU’s Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, or AMIL. AMIL is focused on strengthening the EU’s common European asylum system and helping member states integrate third-country nationals, repatriate failed asylum seekers and relocate those granted humanitarian protection to other countries within the EU. 
Funding can also be used to improve infrastructure related to migration, such as reception centres. 
Malta’s approved allocation of €52.3 million in EU funds was announced by the parliamentary secretariat for EU funds on Wednesday. 

The statement did not provide any details about what that money will be used for, despite parliamentary secretary Chris Bonett saying that Malta had to present “clear ideas about where and how we will be spending this...