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EU: SEARCH & RESCUE: Italy and Malta say 'No' to Frontex rules in sea rescue operations

16 October 2013

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"“All these countries are asking the other member states to help them and to take responsibility but at the same time they don’t want those member states to be responsible for the search and rescue through common guidelines drawn up by the commission,” Ann Singleton, co-chair of the trustees of the UK-based civil liberties group Statewatch... .the EU has ended up with “a hotch-potch of counter-productive control of immigration border policies”, which has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths over the last decade"."

See the full article: Italy and Malta say 'No' to Frontex rules in sea rescue operations (euobserver, link)

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