European, African countries discuss ways to fight human trafficking
Five European states and five African countries agreed at a meeting on Monday to work closer together to curtail human trafficking in Europe and at source and to establish legal pathways for migrants to reach Europe, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said.
Johansson told the press that the meeting was part of the European Commission’s preparation of a new European Union (EU) pact on migration and asylum.
“The crossing from Africa to Europe is dangerous and we need to do something about it, both in countries of origin and in countries where these migrants end up,” she said.
The meeting was attended by the interior ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Malta, and Spain as well as their counterparts from Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
It was held on the back of a weekend of migrant landings in Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea, with the media there reporting the arrival of over 1,000 migrants between Friday and Sunday.
Johansson said the EU was investing a lot of money to help countries of origin better control and protect their borders. She mentioned 342 million euros (388 million U.S. dollars) in Morocco and 155 million in Libya as examples.
“We also support the fight against human traffickers through regional programs aimed at dismantling smuggling networks. We agreed to explore how best to use EU agencies like Frontex and Europol to reach this goal,” she said.
“Europe needs a strong partnership with these countries or origin,” she said. “We need to improve the way we can help these countries manage and fight the root causes of migration. We also need to find legal pathways for these people to come to Europe.”
Source: Xinhua
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Like so many other European Commissioners, Ylva Johansson is a LIAR.
Apart from her infamous interview on BBC in March 2018 – where she deliberately gave false information about the number of reported rapes and sexual harassment cases involving immigrants to Sweden – she claimed in October 2019 (at the European Parliament) to be ‘proud that Sweden received so many refugees’ – even though this was associated with an enormous increase in migrant-related crime.
She has declined to answer questions from E.U. Parliament members if Sweden’s ‘non-response’ to gang crime and migration would be ‘exported to the E.U. level’.
More recently, Johansson has stated that European Union ‘recovery funds’ should only be distributed to those E.U. nations which ‘accept [sic. so-called] refugees and migrants’ from outside Europe.
There is no doubt that Ms. Johansson is a left-wing, neo-Marxist, migrophilic trouble-maker who has NO IDEA how to control the crazy situation initiated by ‘Mother Merkel’ in 2015.
Any suggestions made by her – especially in association with politicians from France / Germany / Italy / Spain (all of whom want extra money from the E.U. to pay for the totally useless Muslim individuals literally ‘flooding’ those countries) – should be treated with total disdain.
Our Mother Africa is the cradle of human civilization. We are all African migrants of tens of thousands of years ago. God bless Africa and its people.
The continual CRAP written by Mario makes me – and LOTS of other readers – want to PUKE !
Mario should live inside a deep, dark cave in Eastern Africa as that is where he obviously belongs.
Ugh …..