On Monday 2 July, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini called on the members of the EUNAVFOR Med Sophia operation to monitor the Libyan coastguard more.
"We should monitor the work of the Libyan coastguard more than we do now", she said during a speech at the operation's headquarters in Rome. According to Mogherini, the EU "stopped, for a very stupid budget reason, using (its) capacity to check the coastguard from Tripoli". In her...