EU sends boats to the English Channel to help tackle 'migration crisis'
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The European Border Guard Agency wants to work with French rescue ships in the English Channel. According to Frontex, this is not about intercepting migrants.
The European Union border agency will send boats to the Channel and to the North Sea to assist in the search and rescue operations of migrants, authorities said on Friday. The announcement takes place days after the leaders of France and the United Kingdom meet and discuss the migration issue. Frontex will send two Spanish boats between September and October and then one from Lithuania until January, to join the French patrols, informed the auth…
The Spanish ship Duke de Ahumada was assigned to the Channel to assist the French authorities in the search for migrants who could try the "dangerous" crossing.
The crews of the European Agency will not participate in interception operations at sea, has ensured the maritime prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea.
Brussels, 4 Sep (EFE).- The European Border and Coast Agency (Frontex) has deployed a Spanish Civil Guard patrol vessel on the English Channel to assist in the search and rescue of small boats sailing from the French coast towards the United Kingdom. The vessel belonging to [...] Frontex entry deploys a Civil Guard vessel on the English Channel for the first time was first published in HolaNews.
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