Migeru:

European policy:

• leave the migrants in the first country of entry
  
• do not organize rescue operations so as not to attact more migrants
  
• organize a military operation to sink the boats of the people smugglers
  
• "stabilize Libya"
  
• collect underpants
  
• ???
  
• profit!

In particular the "leave the migrants in the first country of entry" which together with the transporter liability and tighter control of airports means people fleeing will have to go over the seas (or through Russia, but that does not appear to happen much) to get to the EU or drown trying.

This is EU:s main refugee policy, the rest is just handling the consequences of that policy.

'A systematic effort to capture and destroy vessels used by the smugglers.'

'We really have no clue how these pesky smugglers are organized and damn sovereignty anyway.'

More sigh:

Member States to ensure fingerprinting of all migrants;

'Member States stimulate the practice of migrants mutilating their own fingers. It does not wish to consider that the storage of fingerprint registration is legally questionable and damn privacy anyway'.

Need fresh air now.

1. Lie brazenly about the nature of the problem


2. Do the same thing you have been doing anyway just more of it.


3. Profit

No underpants involved and has worked every time:
Capitalism collapsing? Privatization!
Climate change? Derivatives!
Fascists running wild? More power for the Spooks!

In 2010, Europe was moving quickly to normalize relations with the former dictator. Oil interests played a role, but so did the desire of many European nations to outsource migrant control to the North African country [...]

Mr. Qaddafi was well aware of European alarm at the rising tide of migrants in his final years in power. He used it as a powerful wedge to improve his own standing. Back to 2004, Qaddafi began making deals with individual European states to control the tide of migrants. In August 2010, he visited his friend Silvio Berlusconi, then president of Italy, in Rome and said Europe would turn "black" without his help.

Writes @Der_Postillon: "EU in search of perfect n° of drowned people to scare off refugees w/o upsetting EU citizens" http://t.co/mE3jCnFBTz

— R P (@ronpatz) abril 21, 2015

Boots on the table would be worse. MT @duncanrobinson EU: Any operation v smugglers will not involve boots on ground. Not on the table.

— Berlaymonster (@Berlaymonster) abril 22, 2015

EU official says resources for existing Triton op may be.doubled, but no change in mandate, ie border monitoring rather than search + rescue

— Tom Nuttall (@tom_nuttall) abril 22, 2015

Only 5,000 resettlement places across Europe are to be offered to refugees who survive the dangerous Mediterranean sea crossing under the emergency summit crisis package to be agreed by EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday.

A confidential draft summit statement seen by the Guardian indicates that the vast majority of those who survive the journey and make it to Italy - 150,000 did so last year - will be sent back as irregular migrants under a new rapid-return programme co-ordinated by the EU's border agency, Frontex. More than 36,000 boat survivors have reached Italy, Malta and Greece so far this year.

The draft summit conclusions also reveal that hopes of a major expansion of search-and-rescue operations across the Mediterranean in response to the humanitarian crisis are likely to be dashed, despite widespread and growing pressure.

I really, really need a softer desk.

timesofmalta.com - General, sporting, and business news for Malta and the surrounding region

Libya's Tripoli government will not accept Europe bombing sites presumed to belong to Libyan people smugglers and would "confront it", the Salvation Government's Foreign Minister is warning.

Muhammed El-ghirani told Times of Malta that nobody from the EU had consulted Tripoli about such plans and he insisted such action could not be taken unilaterally.

"We have been doing our best to get Europe to cooperate with us to deal with illegal immigration but they keep telling us we're not the internationally recognised government. Now they cannot just decide to take this action, they have to speak to us," he said.

Moreover, he questioned the very method being contemplated.

"You cannot just decide to hit. Let's say you strike a particular site, how will you know that you did not hit an innocent person, a fisherman? Does Europe have pinpoint accuracy? So we are saying, let's do this together," Dr El-ghirani said.

Strengthening our presence at sea

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. We welcome the commitments already made by Member States which will allow to reach this objective in the coming weeks;
Fighting traffickers in accordance with international law

b) disrupt trafficking networks, bring the perpetrators to justice and seize their assets, through swift action by Member State authorities in co-operation with EUROPOL, FRONTEX, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and EUROJUST, as well as through increased intelligence and police-cooperation with third countries;

c) undertake systematic efforts to identify, capture and destroy vessels before they are used by traffickers;

d) at the same time, the High Representative is invited to immediately begin preparations for a possible CSDP operation to this effect;

e) use EUROPOL to detect and request removal of internet content used by traffickers to attract migrants and refugees, in accordance with national constitutions;

Preventing illegal migration flows

f) increase support to Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Mali and Niger among others, to monitor and control the land borders and routes, building on current CSDP operations in the region, as well as on regional cooperation frameworks (Rabat and Khartoum processes); step up dialogue with the African Union at all levels on all these issues;

g) reinforce our political cooperation with African partners at all levels in order to tackle the cause of illegal migration and combat the smuggling and trafficking of human beings. The EU will raise these issues with the African Union and the key countries concerned, with whom it will propose the holding of a summit in Malta in the coming months;

h) step up cooperation with Turkey in view of the situation in Syria and Iraq;

i) deploy European migration liaison officers in key countries to gather information on migratory flows, co-ordinate with national liaison officers, and co-operate directly with the local authorities;

j) work with regional partners in building capacity for maritime border management and search and rescue operations;

k) launch Regional Development and Protection programmes for North Africa and the Horn of Africa;

l) invite the Commission and the High Representative to mobilise all tools, including through development cooperation and the implementation of EU and national readmission agreements with third countries, to promote readmission of unauthorised economic migrants to countries of origin and transit, working closely with the International Organisation for Migration;

m) while respecting the right to seek asylum, set up a new return programme for the rapid return of illegal migrants from frontline Member States, coordinated by FRONTEX;

Reinforcing internal solidarity and responsibility

n) rapid and full transposition and effective implementation of the Common European Asylum System by all participating Member States, thereby ensuring common European standards under existing legislation;

o) increase emergency aid to frontline Member States and consider options for organising emergency relocation between all Member States on a voluntary basis;

p) deploy EASO teams in frontline Member States for joint processing of asylum applications, including registration and finger-printing;

q) set up a first voluntary pilot project on resettlement across the EU, offering places to persons qualifying for protection.

The Council of Europe today has approved an amendment to my first signature which calls for Europe to share not only the responsibility but also the cost of operations regarding the management of migrants and, above all, to review the logic of the Dublin agreement to insert the concept of quotas for the host country.
To this result we arrived after three days of battle, in committee and in the house, to convince the representatives of 48 countries that Italy alone do not make that can be done, and needs help.
In essence we did change the paragraph that said " to revise the Dublin regulation in view of the sharing of responsibilities in the reception and management of irregular migrants and Asylum seekers " into " to revise the Dublin regulation in view of the sharing of responsibilities and costs In the reception and management of irregular migrants and Asylum Seekers, with quotas for their distribution among the member countries of the European Union on the basis of the population and the economic capacity of the same ".
What can I say... I am extremely pleased to have achieved in Europe What Matteo Renzi says in Italy but then it does not.
Now it will be up to the European Council go in this direction but, meanwhile, we have done our part keeping, as always, our promises and giving it to our country a charter in more to play.
 French Thierry Mariani, President of the commission migrants and refugees and displaced persons rapporteur for the measure, he took the word in the general assembly to cheer for this amendment calling it a " Revolution for the agreement of Dublin ".
I repeat, commitment, determination, honesty and passion are the only quality that we need to do politics, all the rest comes by itself, if you are in good faith, otherwise you are just a politician on the cheap.

The m5s is ready, has the answers we need and just needs to go to the government to change our country and Europe as a whole.

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Manlio Di Stefano - M5S