Today Italy is negotiating with the EU about the air-sea rescue in the Mediterranean Sea. PRO asylum feared that a kind of Mare Nostrum light could arise at the end of the negotiations, with fatal consequence, that even less people will be saved. Ends the operation of Mare Nostrum? Italy and EU negotiations in Brussels over refugee rescue in the Mediterranean Sea Over 1900 deaths in the year 2014: PRO ASYL calls for the immediate expansion and Europeanization of the air-sea rescue Today Angelino Alfano meet in Brussels EU Interior Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and the Italian Minister of the Interior, to negotiate the continuation of rescue ship fragile refugees in the Mediterranean Sea. Italy threatens to end the military operation Mare Nostrum in October: the country was no longer able to finance this usage, who saved the life, already thousands of refugees. Multiple ROM has the European Commission and the Member States to help asked, repeatedly rejected them. PRO asylum feared that a kind of Mare Nostrum light could arise at the end of the negotiations, with fatal consequence, that even less people will be saved. The haggling to the sea rescue shows that the lives of refugees in the Mediterranean plays only a minor role in the European refugee policy, so Karl Kopp, European referent by PRO ASYL. Despite the ongoing distress rescue action dramatically increases the death rate in the Mediterranean. The United Nations High Commissioner for refugees reported yesterday about 1900 deaths in the Central Mediterranean in this year - 1600 refugees died in the last three months alone. PRO ASYL calls that sea rescue is immediately expanded pan-European funded and organized. Only so can stop mass death before Europes southern border. PRO ASYL also calls a European recovery programme, the the saves tens of thousands of seeking protection who are stranded on the flight to Libya, the crossings to Italy. The EU States should rapidly evacuate refugees made Libyan transit. In the face of escalating violence in Libya, the situation of the refugees is always dramatic. Nationals of EU Member States were brought in recent weeks out of the country quickly and prudently. According to the UNHCR, 108,000 boat refugees in Italy have arrived this year. Almost half of seeking protection fled Eritrea and Syria. Italy calls on the EU and the Member States participating in the cost and Mare Nostrum will be replaced by a multinational operation. The current usage - 108 million euros in the year, on the EU population will cost approximately EUR 9 million per month approximately 20 cents per capita. Supposedly, this money is missing. There is however no secret that see the EU Interior Ministers Mare nostrum first and foremost as a Pull factor: more refugees would dare the crossing since Italy increased rescues boat refugees, so the cynical point of view.
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:51:46 +0000
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