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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10326

2 March 2011
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Hermes mission could be extended to Malta, says Frontex

Brussels, 01/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - The agency Frontex may extend its Hermes mission, which was deployed in Italy on 20 February, to the island of Malta, to deal with a potential influx of illegal migrants from Libya. This announcement was made on Tuesday 1 March by the Finnish director of the European agency for the management of the external borders of the EU, Ilka Laitinen, during the debate in the civil liberties committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament (EP) on the consequences of...

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