Concordat Ministers Trade Blame Over Who Pays for the Corridors

BRUSSELS — The quarrel arrived before the agenda did. Ahead of the Global Concordat Council's autumn business, delegations spent this week in the corridors outside the chamber arguing over a question no communiqué has settled: who pays to keep the migration corridors open as registered climate migrants approach 116 to 118 million. Secretary-General Ingrid Halvorsen, who chaired the summer's water session, tried to lower the temperature. "We agreed in July that scarcity is shared," she told reporters. "It would be strange to now pretend the cost is not." Northern members press for burden formulas tied to capacity; transit states counter that they already carry the human weight and want the ledger to say so. Nothing binding was tabled; nothing was ruled out. A relief liaison from Hearth Relief International, sitting in on the talks, put the stakes plainly outside the hall: "The tide does not wait for a formula. It has been arriving all summer."