Luxembourg Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/luxembourg/ The low down on African affairs Sat, 13 Apr 2019 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 Luxembourg Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/luxembourg/ 32 32 Four EU members agree to take in 67 migrants adrift for a fortnight https://jjcornish.com/2019/04/four-eu-members-agree-to-take-in-67-migrants-adrift-for-a-fortnight/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/04/four-eu-members-agree-to-take-in-67-migrants-adrift-for-a-fortnight/ Four European countries have agreed to take in 67 migrants who’ve been stranded aboard a rescue ship in the Mediterranean for two weeks. Maltese naval vessels ferried the refugees ashore because the German-flagged vessel was not allowed into Valetta harbor The migrants will be moved to Germany, France, Portugal and Luxembourg who agreed to take […]

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]]> Four European countries have agreed to take in 67 migrants who’ve been stranded aboard a rescue ship in the Mediterranean for two weeks.

Maltese naval vessels ferried the refugees ashore because the German-flagged vessel was not allowed into Valetta harbor

The migrants will be moved to Germany, France, Portugal and Luxembourg who agreed to take them in. They’ve come from Libya, where fighting around the capital Tunis has prevented naval operations curbing refugee boats starting the perilous crossing to Europe. So far this year, 356 migrants have drowned or gone missing on the Mediterranean.

Malta and Italy have barred rescue ships from their harbours.

The 67 aboard the Alan Kurdi, named after a three-year-old Syrian son of migrants who drowned in 2015, were in desperate straits on the overcrowded the vessel.

Two had already been evacuated because of  medical emergencies. 

 

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]]> EU devises plan for dealing with migrants crossing Mediterranean https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/eu-devises-plan-for-dealing-with-migrants-crossing-mediterranean/ Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/eu-devises-plan-for-dealing-with-migrants-crossing-mediterranean/ European foreign ministers have devised a ten-point plan to deal with the growing number of migrants leaving the North African coast and making all too often fatal attempts to cross the Mediterranean. Observers say it marks an appreciation by the grouping that this is a Europe-wide problem that cannot be left only to Italy and […]

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]]> European foreign ministers have devised a ten-point plan to deal with the growing number of migrants leaving the North African coast and making all too often fatal attempts to cross the Mediterranean.

Observers say it marks an appreciation by the grouping that this is a Europe-wide problem that cannot be left only to Italy and Greece.

The plan thrashed out by ministers meeting in Luxembourg is aimed squarely at the people traffickers profiting from the desperate migrants by cramming them into unseaworthy vessels headed for the closest European destination.

It also commits greater resources to preventing the departures and rescuing those in peril on the sea.

Italy yesterday arrested the captain and first mate of a vessel that sank off the Libyan coast at the weekend, leaving at least 700 people dead.

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