The EU should provide €15,000 ($16,800) per asylum-seeker for each of the first two years to help cover housing, health care, and education costs – and to make accepting refugees more appealing to member states. It can raise these funds by issuing long-term bonds using its largely untapped AAA borrowing capacity, which will have the added benefit of providing a justified fiscal stimulus to the European economy.
充足的资金至关重要。在最初两年，欧盟每年至少应该为寻求庇护者提供人均15,000欧元以帮助他们覆盖住房、医疗和教育成本——也让成员国感到接受难民是一件有吸引力的事。欧盟可以利用其几乎无限量的AAA级借贷能力，通过发行长期债券筹集这笔资金， 同时也为欧洲经济提供合理的财政刺激，获得额外的好处。