On Thursday 27 July, the European Commission said it was ready to talk to "all the member states to improve the situation in the central Mediterranean", after seeing the proposals made the same morning by France's President Emmanuel Macron in which France, with or without the EU, would create hotspots in safe African countries – especially in Libya – similar to those in Greece and Italy, as reported by French news agency AFP.
According to Macron, who spoke in particular about...