UKIP Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ukip/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 22 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 UKIP Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ukip/ 32 32 EU leaders in human trafficking summit https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/eu-leaders-in-human-trafficking-summit/ Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/eu-leaders-in-human-trafficking-summit/ European leaders are gathered at an emergency summit in Brussels dealing with human trafficking. They’re under pressure to respond more effectively to the 2 000 deaths this year of people trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa in a desperate bid to reach Europe. ends intro With more than 700 deaths of migrants […]

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They’re under pressure to respond more effectively to the 2 000 deaths this year of people trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa in a desperate bid to reach Europe.
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With more than 700 deaths of migrants this past week, European leaders are expected to double the amount of money they spend rescuing people who’ve come to grief in overcrowded and unseaworthy boats.
Politically it is easier for them to sell their domestic audiences a message of getting tough with the people traffickers who are profiting from the desperate migrants.
This applies particularly to British premier David Cameron, two weeks away from an election and under attack from the anti-immigrant UK Independence Party.

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