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UK-EU: Home Affairs Select Committee report: Commission Communication: European Agenda on Migration and associated documents

19 August 2015

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See the full report: Commission Communication: European Agenda on Migration and associated documents (72 pages, pdf) including European Agenda on Migration, European Union military operation in the Southern Central Mediterranean, Relocation of migrants in need of international protection. On EUNAVFOR MED the report comments:

"unlike piracy, migration does not pose the sort of threat envisaged in chapter 7 of the UN Charter, and that there is thus a difficulty in finding an appropriate legal base; — successful anti-illegal migration operations in the Caribbean and Australasia are based on repatriation, which is not envisaged in the EU plan; — the EU plan addresses symptoms, not causes; — there is no internationally-recognised and domestically-accepted government in Libya"

See also: Five Reasons Why Militarising the EU Migration Plan Will Not Work (RUSI, link): "With news of regular tragedies involving migrants awash on Europe’s shores, the European Union is promising to respond to these through military means. But the political will just does not exist in Europe; neither can the hurdles be overcome easily." And: Militarising the EU Migration Plan: A Flawed Approach (RUSI, link)

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