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Operation Sophia, the EU’s naval mission in the Mediterranean: an impossible challenge
Release year: 2016
Organisation: House of Lords (UK) EU Committee
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Content available online here:
https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201516/ldselect/ldeucom/144/144.pdf
https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201516/ldselect/ldeucom/144/144.pdf
Keywords:
Security, migration routes, smuggling, EU response
Security, migration routes, smuggling, EU response
Abstract:
Migration to Europe is part of a much larger phenomenon of the mass movement of people globally. Long-standing grievances, both economic and political, as well as the recent deterioration in security conditions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), have directed flows of people towards safer havens and better living conditions in Europe. Mediterranean migration has become a global issue, connecting Europe with sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA, and funding a lucrative criminal economy. By virtue of geographical proximity, Europe is at the front line of this trend, but this is a global issue with consequences well beyond the European continent, affecting all developed economies.
Migration to Europe is part of a much larger phenomenon of the mass movement of people globally. Long-standing grievances, both economic and political, as well as the recent deterioration in security conditions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), have directed flows of people towards safer havens and better living conditions in Europe. Mediterranean migration has become a global issue, connecting Europe with sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA, and funding a lucrative criminal economy. By virtue of geographical proximity, Europe is at the front line of this trend, but this is a global issue with consequences well beyond the European continent, affecting all developed economies.