Strasbourg, 08/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - MEPs hoped on Tuesday 8 October that the recent tragedy off the coast of Lampedusa (see EUROPE 10936) would jolt the member states, meeting that same day in Luxembourg, into taking real action, on the one hand, to prevent such disasters from happening and, on the other, to develop a common migration policy.
“I hope that European leaders will realise the scale of what has happened”, stated Hélene Flautre (Greens/EFA, France). Her fellow group...