Deutsche Welle :
Humanitarian organizations have been saving refugees in the Mediterranean for over a decade. After all this time, they still feel the European Union has let them down. Could an EU-wide rescue program be the answer?
“We rescued 68 people from two unsuitable boats on the night of May 1st,” Marie Michel, a crew member of the sea rescue organization SOS Humanity, reported at a press conference marking the group’s 10th anniversary.
“Both boats were in the Libyan search and rescue zone at the time, but the Libyan rescue coordination center did not coordinate any of these rescues but said that they are not responsible,” she added
In Michel’s view, this sums up how the European Union has successively outsourced responsibility for rescuing people from drowning in the Mediterranean to civilian organizations for more than a decade.
