b'2. Immigration agendaIn September 2017, French PresidentOn the legislative front, the EU has increased Emmanuel Macron said: making a place infunding for the Asylum, Migration and Europe for refugees who have risked theirIntegration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal life is our duty.1He pushed for a closerSecurity Fund (ISF) by 70%. These funds common asylum policy and suggested ahave supported the integration of 1,915,000 pan-European asylum agency and standardthird-countrynationals into the EU so far.EU identity documents. Last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel echoed theseFurthermore, the EU Commission intends to sentiments, saying that [t]his is a Europeanenact a fully harmonized common procedure challenge that also needs a Europeanfor migrants. It has proposed a mandatory solution.2 and automatically-triggeredrelocation system among member states. The first In June 2018, both President Macron andstep was establishing the Entry/Exit System Chancellor Merkel publicly committedto a(EES) on 30 November 2017. This piece of partnership aimed at reinvigorating the EUlegislation requires member states to supply project with the Meseberg Declaration.any information requested by supervisory This included the swift relaunch of aauthorities from the EU and creates a Central comprehensive Migration Agenda. TheEU System ensuring the interoperability of Declaration states: unilateral, uncoordinatedinformation systems.4action will split Europe, divide its peoples and put Schengen at risk. Tackling the migrationMost recently, on 19 December 2018, the challenges effectively requires combinedEU Commission planned to transform the efforts of all member states as well as theEuropean Asylum Support Office into a EU institutions.3 During this time, Chancellorfully-fledged EU Agency for Asylum with Merkels coalition government was sufferingan enhanced mandate and considerable from internal divisions on refugee policy afterexpanded tasks. she had unilaterally opened Germanys doors to migrants from Hungary in 2015.The EU Commission, EU Council and a number of member states are still fighting about this, five years after the migrant crisis really started in 2014/2015187'