STRASBOURG/NICOSIA: Europe’s governments are sapping efforts to tackle the migration crisis by not honoring commitments on money and resources, EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday in a biting attack on national leaders.

“The gap between pledges and what is on the table must be reduced otherwise we are losing all kinds of credibility,” the Commission president said during a report to the European Parliament on measures the EU is taking to stem and control an inflow of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and others.

The 114 migrants who landed at a British air base on Cyprus last week were meanwhile moved to another military facility Tuesday, officials said, warning that the island would not become a conduit for immigration.The migrants came ashore on two fishing boats Wednesday at the Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri, from where British planes are carrying out bombing raids against the Islamic State group in Iraq.

The group, which included Syrians, Lebanese and Palestinians, was made up of 28 children, 19 women and 67 men. Despite a common recognition of the need to tighten checks on the bloc’s external borders as Greek and Italian authorities have struggled to cope with arrivals by sea, Juncker said fewer than half the 775 border guards and 374 immigration officials requested by EU agencies have been offered for secondment.

“The member states ... are moving slowly. They should start to run,” he said, warning of the hardship migrants will face from the weather. “Winter is approaching. Every day counts.”

Following legal commitments reached in councils of the 28 member states to relocate up to 160,000 asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece over the next two years, only nine governments had so far made a total of just 700 places available.

Fewer than 100 people have actually been flown to other host countries -- all from Italy. Leaders have given Greece and Italy until the end of next month to have so-called “hotspots” for the registration and potential relocation of migrants fully working.

European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs summits of leaders, echoed the urgings of the EU executive. He described the goal of having fully operational hotspots in Italy and Greece by end-November as “ambitious” and said it would need a “significant acceleration of manpower and assets” to the EU’s Asylum Support Office (EASO) and its Frontex border agency. Of 2.3 billion euros ($2.5 billion) promised by governments collectively to help Syrian refugees and aid Africans to reduce incentives to go to Europe, Juncker said only 486 million was covered by firm national pledges, condemning a “huge gap”.