[Italy - Frontex - Mare Nostrum] EU Observer - International waters likely off limits to EU migrant mission

Plans to restrict the EU border agency Frontex operations to an area close to the Italian coast could jeopardise lives should Italy’s Mare Nostrum be phased out.

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  The EU is set to launch Joint Operation Triton in November (Photo: Frontex)

“If this happens, Italy must maintain the Mare Nostrum operation because otherwise we will really go back to the situation before October 2013 and because the phenomenon of arrivals by sea will not stop,” said Christopher Hein at the Italian Refugee Council in Brussels on Tuesday (9 September).

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