Emergency summit Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/emergency-summit/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Emergency summit Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/emergency-summit/ 32 32 EU leaders triple budget for sea rescue operation https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/eu-leaders-triple-budget-for-sea-rescue-operation/ Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/eu-leaders-triple-budget-for-sea-rescue-operation/ European leaders have resolved at their emergency summit on people trafficking to triple funding for the search and rescue of migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean. It brings assistance efforts back into line with Italy’s Mare Nostrum operation scrapped late last year for cost reasons . In addition to the 120 million euros […]

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]]> European leaders have resolved at their emergency summit on people trafficking to triple funding for the search and rescue of migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean.
It brings assistance efforts back into line with Italy’s Mare Nostrum operation scrapped late last year for cost reasons .

In addition to the 120 million euros the EU will be spending on sea rescue efforts, the grouping will also be destroying the vessels used by the people smugglers.
French President Francois Hollande’s undertaken to get the necessary mandate from the United Nations.
The emergency summit follows the deaths last weekend of as many as 800 Europe-bound migrants in one boat that sunk off Libya.
Amnesty International says it fears deaths on this scale will continue.
The human rights watchdog calls the EU’s latest response woefully inadequate and shameful.

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