Egypt is going through a serious economic crisis and as an immediate result there is an anomalous migratory flow towards Europe. The latest official statistics on Egypt's poverty rate estimate that nearly a third of the country lives below the poverty line. The austerity measures imposed by Sisi have created a deep [...]
read moreThe European Border and Coast Guard Agency - Frontex has arranged, starting from this year, to send personnel from the so-called Standing Corps to the external borders of the Member States of the European Union, to support the border personnel in operations related to document checks, border surveillance, guard activities [...]
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In a mission on behalf of the European agency #Frontex, on 20 June the Falco #EVO helped to identify a ship suspected of carrying irregular migrants On 20 June Leonardo's Falco EVO drone was used in a monitoring operation in the Mediterranean Sea which involved a boat with irregular migrants, as part of an activity of the European agency [...]
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The two Italian ships with 450 migrants on board docked in Pozzallo. The odyssey that saw the Italian government at the forefront to assert the considerations expressed at the end of June by the European partners has finally ended. On a voluntary basis, all EU countries offered to contribute to the reception. Opposition emerged from the countries [...]
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