The European Union’s 2018 budget is set to include more money for humanitarian aid, but less development spending than the year before, angering nongovernmental organizations that say Brussels has fallen into short-term “tunnel vision” over the issue of migration.

Closed-door negotiations between the European Parliament and member states in the European Council ended Saturday with a spending commitment on “Global Europe” — a budget category that covers aid and some others costs — of 9.6 billion euros ($11.3 billion) for the coming year, down from 10.4 billion euros ($12.2 billion) in 2017.

That includes an almost 15 percent year-on-year increase in humanitarian spending to 1.08 billion euros ($1.3 billion), but a 6 percent drop in allocations to the Development Cooperation Instrument, one of the bloc’s main development instruments.

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