The German navy, part of the naval device of Eunavfor Med's Irini mission, was forced to abandon the intervention on a Turkish merchant ship, suspected of transporting weapons to Libya. Strong were the objections raised by Ankara which contribute to increasingly tilt the already fragile relations between Turkey and the European Union. (of […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) A few days ago there was the extraordinary meeting of the COPS - Political Security Committee - on Libya. The representative of the European External Action Service (Seae) represented to the various ambassadors who attended the plan for a remodeling of the EunavforMEd - Sophia mission for the surveillance of the UN resolution on the embargo of [...]
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According to the 2017 agreement between Italy and Libya, vans, ambulances, boats, satellite phones and other equipment would still be missing from the appeal of Tripoli's equipment. As the Corriere della Sera writes, the Italian expenditure, to honor the agreement, would have had to amount to about 800 million euros. The agreement never went ahead as agreed so much so that now [...]
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Germany suspends participation in the 'Sophia' operation, the EU's naval deployment to combat human trafficking across the Mediterranean. According to information received by the Dpa, after the deployment of the 'Augusta' frigate, no other ships of the German navy will participate. Berlin's decision would be the consequence of the Italian government's reluctance to allow refugees to disembark, the Dpa still reports. In front of […]
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The Libyan coast guard has a rubber dinghy in custody with about 100 immigrants on board, almost all of Sudanese nationality. The alarm, which started yesterday afternoon from the dinghy, had been intercepted by the ships of the NGO Mediterranea and Proactiva Open Arms. The Mediterranean NGO wrote on Twitter that "120 people" were in danger of drowning, explaining that they had "informed [...]
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The Eunavfor Med - Sophia FB page reported that the French ship JACOUBET is once again part of the Task Force of Operation Sophia. European Union operation focused on combating and eliminating the phenomenon of trade in migrant smugglers and human traffickers. An operation that actively contributes to the EU's efforts [...]
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