On Wednesday 9 January, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat confirmed his country's readiness to dock the two ships of two German NGOs - Sea-Watch 3 and Professor Albrecht Penck - on which 49 migrants were still on board the previous day, who have since been able to disembark after having remained on board for more than two weeks.
This gesture, confirmed a little later in the day by the European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, could be made by the Maltese...