On Tuesday 25 July, the European Union expanded and extended the EunavforMed Sophia operation until 31 December 2018. The objective of this operation is to dismantle the business model of smugglers and human traffickers in the central Mediterranean.
Operation Sophia will now conduct new monitoring activities and will collect information on the trafficking of illicit oil exports from Libya. The operation already contributes to the implementation of the United Nations arms embargo off...