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EU: "FORTRESS EUROPE" RE-BORN: SEARCH & RESCUE CRISIS IN MED

20 April 2015

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See the full text: Joint Foreign and Home Affairs Council: Ten point action plan on migration (pdf) which does not include a response to the humanitarian situation for "search and rescue" but which includes:

- "A systematic effort to capture and destroy vessels used by the smugglers" which would require a "civil-military" operation to be authorised by the Council

- "Member States to ensure fingerprinting of all migrants"

- "Establish a new return programme for rapid return of irregular migrants coordinated by Frontex from frontline Member States" and "Consider options for an emergency relocation"

And see the article: Mediterranean migrant crisis: EU sets out measures (BBC News, link)

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