Parliament calls on member states to support the Commission’s aim of increasing the share of EU humanitarian funds for the education of children in emergencies to 4% and on all host countries to help integrate child refugees in their national education systems, in a resolution passed on Thursday. It points out that education reduces the risk of young people becoming engaged in extremism.

Parliament welcomes the Commission’s announcement of its new goal of earmarking 4% of the EU’s humanitarian aid budget to education for children in emergency situations by 2019 and calls on member states to support it in the resolution, which was adopted by a show of hands.

Integrating refugee children in national education systems

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