Despite treacherous conditions at sea, record numbers of migrants are setting off from North Africa to reach the European Union. This weekend alone, nearly 5,600 people arrived on Italy’s southern coasts, reported InfoMigrant website.
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European Union backing for Libyan authorities who stop and detain migrants means the bloc has “aided and abetted” rights violations against migrants, an investigator for a U.N. mission said on Monday.
The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, begins on Sunday a two-day visit to Algeria.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has praised Italy’s response to Europe’s irregular migration crisis in a letter to…
The European naval operation IRINI has announced that it monitored 25 suspect flights out of 1,131 flights to Libya during February, explaining that it carried out 9 visits on ships with Master’s consent out of 434, and investigated 271 merchant vessels via radio calls out of 8,647, according to the European External Action Service (EEAS).
In 2022, the Alarm Phone NGO was alerted to 673 migrant boats in distress in the central Mediterranean region, the Alarm Phone said in a report.
On the International Human Rights Day, European Union said it is “ready to accompany Libyans’ efforts by taking concrete actions to advance transitional justice and restore confidence in the institutions of the State.”
High-profile European politicians, including the EU’s former foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Italy’s current and former interior ministers and the current and former prime ministers of Malta, have been named as the subjects of a criminal complaint at the international criminal court alleging they conspired with Libya’s coastguard to illegally push back refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, The Guardian reported.
European interior ministers welcomed Friday an EU plan to better coordinate the handling of migrant arrivals, after a furious argument over a refugee rescue boat erupted between Italy and France, AFP reported.
The European Parliament urged Wednesday the Libyan authorities to cancel the 2019 Turkey-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on the delimitation of maritime jurisdictions in the Mediterranean Sea.