Asylum crisis? What crisis?

Jenny Phillimore

Professor Jenny Phillimore

“Much of the controversy around the so-called ‘dead sea’ relates to the EU’s decision to cut funds to the Mare Nostrum rescue service. But in a bid to save money and send a message to potential refugees that they would not automatically be rescued, it is now evident that this decision has had disastrous consequences with no impact on the numbers crossing.”

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