Senior members of the European Parliament have accused the European Commission of funnelling funds to Tunisian President Kais Saied through a US$162 million migration deal, which allegedly ended up directly in the president’s pockets. “It seems that we are bankrolling dictators across the region. And that is not the Europe that we want to see,” added French MEP Mounir Satouri, a member of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, during a press conference on Wednesday. On 4 March, the EU promised Tunisia a €150 million (US$162 million) budgetary support package. This is part of a broader pa…