Since the beginning of 2020, approximately 1,000 people have died or gone missing in the Central Mediterranean in an attempt to reach Europe. On 12 November 2020, 74 people drowned off the coast of Libya when a raft carrying migrants sank. […]
2020 has proven to be a year of great challenges for the European Union and its member states and citizens. While COVID-19 has spread across the Union, important policy developments have been brought forward by the European Commission in the policy field of migration. […]
“Sophia is finished, we have a new mission and a clear demarcation line against abuses of traffickers” said Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg in February after a meeting with EU Foreign Affairs Ministers about launching a new naval operation in the Central Mediterranean. […]