The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called on EU Member States on Wednesday 30 January to take responsibility for addressing the issue of migrant sea crossings and to at least begin to agree on a temporary landing scheme.
While in Brussels, he presented the results of a new report according to which “on average, 6 people per day died" while trying to reach the EU in 2018. While the number of arrivals in Europe is constantly decreasing, the number of deaths...