Frontex blasted for boasting of decline of migrants into Europe as rescuers witness refugees pushed back to war-torn Libya

AN NGO migrant rescue organisation said today that it has witnessed refugees in distress at sea being pushed back to Libya, a day after the European Union border agency boasted about a drop in the numbers of irregular migrant crossings into Europe. Refugee rescue ship Sea Watch 3 tweeted this afternoon that it had rescued

The civil refugee rescue fleet is no ‘pull factor’

Speaking to Ben Cowles, Italian researcher MATTEO VILLA debunks the idea that search and rescue operations are encouraging people to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean to Europe THE European Union recently agreed to extend its anti-human trafficking naval mission, known as Operation Sophia, for a further six months. Though ostensibly a military mission, Operation