The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, arrived at the G20 on Friday 7 July with a clear aim: to obtain consensus among the top-20 economic powers in the world to introduce international sanctions against people-smugglers.
‘We have managed to overcome, to a great degree the crisis in the eastern Mediterranean, … and decreased number of migrants from 158,000 in the first half of 2016 to 9,000 in the first half of 2017,’ explained Donald Tusk. He said this had only been...