Regional and local leaders have urged the European Union to increase the size of its Asylum and Migration Fund by nearly €6 billion in 2021-27. In a warning to EU decision-makers against placing "an excessive emphasis on border control", they also called for roughly one-third of the fund to be spent on managing legal migration and on integration, and for some spending on integration to be compulsory.

On 22 March Dimitris Avramopoulos, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, will discuss progress of the European Union's migration agenda with local and regional politicians, many of whom host refugees and new arrivals from the Middle East and North Africa. The migration debate kicks off the European Committee of the Regions' plenary session in Brussels that will also focus on the EU's possible enlargement to the Western Balkans. Johannes Hahn, the EU's Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiation, will participate in the debate.

On 6 November 2017, Mr Burianek attended the presentation of Mr Luc Van den Brande's report "Reaching out EU Citizens: A new opportunity" which was made to the public in presence of EC President Jean-Claude Juncker.