(Dagbladet): EU leaders meet today in Brussels has already given clear signals about increased resources for the Mediterranean will not become a mass grave for the escalating flow of boat people.
But it does not mean that everyone who comes alive over ocean with sea rescue service or smuggler-craft the allowed to stay in Europe.
In a secret draft today’s summit of EU Commission it is proposed a sharp tightening to stay in Europe.
Only the 5000 boat people with the greatest beskytteslesbehov shall stay and rest are sent back to their homeland, in accordance with the British newspaper The Guardian, which has seen the note EU bosses get on the table today.
36 000 have come
Only YTD the 36,000 boat people arrived to Italy, Malta and Greece.
Last year nearly 240,000 boat people over the ocean, most from ports in North Africa.
In front of this season, which has started tragically with about 2000 drowning people, it was last autumn estimated that 750,000 refugees will try to get to Europe across the Mediterranean.
After the crisis in Yemen has evolved, the UN refugee organization updated this figure to one million people,.
Destroy escape boats
According proposal to the current EU summit is the EU border agency Frontex will get more money – in addition to Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Mali and Niger for these countries to stop mass exodus of their borders.
Italian Prime Minister has already received support from several EU leaders for his initiatives at the weekend to go to so-called interventions in Libyan ports to stop or destroy the escape boats there.
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