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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12038

12 June 2018
SECTORAL POLICIES / Migration
New dispute between Italy and Malta over ports of reception rekindles European migrant solidarity controversy
Brussels, 11/06/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 11 June, at the end of a very pronounced dispute, the Spanish government finally made an offer to the Italian and Maltese authorities to take in a ship containing migrants rescued off the Libyan coast, chartered by SOS Méditerranée in collaboration with Médecins sans frontières (MSF). This ship, the Aquarius, has 629 people on board, including children and pregnant women. It carried out six operations to rescue these shipwreck survivors and subsequently created a dispute...

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