Immigration / Spending · curated from public budgets · 2026-04-30
Spending vs flows
Public spending on EU border and asylum management plotted against the volumes of people the system processes. Two parallel time series — no causal claim.
EU border/asylum · 2024
€3.48B
consolidated
Frontex · 2024
€922M
AMIF · 2024
€1.41B
BMVI · 2024
€891M
§A · EU spending stack · 2014–2024
Funding has roughly tripled.
The four main lines of EU border-and-asylum spending: Frontex, EUAA, AMIF (asylum/migration/integration), and BMVI (border management; ISF-Borders before 2021). All values in EUR (current prices). Aggregate has gone from ~€500m in 2014 to ~€3B today.
§B · EU spending vs application & crossing volumes
Three parallel series.
EU consolidated spending (in € millions), first-time asylum applications (in thousands), and Frontex irregular-crossing detections (in thousands). All scaled to fit the same vertical axis. We do not claim causality between them.
§C · National view — Italy reception spending
Italy: a national accounting line.
Italy publishes its annual reception expenditure in the Bilancio dello Stato. Includes CAS (extraordinary reception centres), SAI (former SPRAR — secondary reception system) and MNA (unaccompanied minors). Single national budget line as a reference point for reception costs at the member-state level.
Method
Figures are transcribed from each agency's annual accounts and the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework. The Cohesion Open Data Platform exposes a live dataset of EU payments by programme, but its CSV endpoint returned empty rows on test runs (April 2026); we'll switch back to the live API once that is fixed.
- Frontex annual budget: https://www.frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/key-documents/
- EUAA / EASO budget: https://euaa.europa.eu/about-us/who-we-are/governance
- AMIF commitments: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/AMIF/
- BMVI / ISF-Borders: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/BMVI/
- Italy reception: https://www.interno.gov.it/it/amministrazione-trasparente/bilanci
Important: AMIF and BMVI figures are commitments, not actual disbursements (which lag by 2–3 years). Frontex and EUAA figures are executed budget. They are stacked here as a rough proxy for total annual EU spending on migration management.