a) rapidly reinforce EU Operations Triton and Poseidon by at least tripling the financial resources for this purpose in 2015 and 2016 and reinforcing the number of assets, thus allowing to increase the search and rescue possibilities within the mandate of FRONTEX.

Danish papers are billing this as "tripling of the budget for assisting refugees in the Mediterranean."

The fact that it is not actually an assistance operation is buried halfway down the article, couched in jargon that is obscure even for people who work in shipping.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.