On Tuesday 28 November, the European Commission presented two new legislative initiatives to prevent and punish human trafficking and migrant smuggling, at a time when 2,600 people have already died in the Mediterranean in 2023 and the trafficking ‘business’ is worth between €4.7 and €6 billion a year worldwide.
As part of an international conference organised the same day in Brussels and the launch of a global alliance, the Commission presented a Directive ‘laying down minimum...