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Rising Tide Of Death, As Europe Looks Inland

September 30, 2014 by Staff Reporter

Amnesty International - Mediterranean - SAR

A year on from the Lampedusa shipwrecks, which claimed more than 500 lives, a new report by Amnesty International highlights how, what Amnesty called the “shameful inaction of European Union (EU) countries” has contributed to a spiralling death toll with thousands of refugees and migrants losing their lives in a desperate bid to reach European […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Brian Maguire, European Parliament, Justice & Home Affairs, Maritime & Fisheries

Coelho, “Saving Border Lives Should Be Mandatory”

December 9, 2013 by Staff Reporter

Carlos Coelho, MEP, EPP, PT

The tragedy off the coast of Lampedusa on 3 October when hundreds of refugees drowned sparked calls for a more humane approach to migration in Europe to prevent the Mediterranean becoming the “graveyard of Europe”. To achieve this, the rules for search and rescue missions conducted by Frontex, the EU’s agency for external border security, […]

Filed Under: Development, EPP, European Parliament, Foreign Relations

“We are the richest continent. We can do more” – Schulz On Migration Solidarity

October 28, 2013 by Brian Maguire

Maria Giuseppina Nicolini,Mayor of Lampedusa, Martin Schulz, EP President

“Lampedusa has become a symbol of a European migration policy,” European Parliament President Martin Schulz told EU leaders at the October European Council, in Brussels. “It should also become a turning point for that migration policy”, he added, calling for greater support of the Mediterranean countries, which receive most irregular migrants trying to enter the […]

Filed Under: European Council, European Parliament, External Action - Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Regions, S&D

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