The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, said on Thursday 31 January that the Member States wanted to strengthen the EUNAVOR MED Operation Sophia.
“The ministers reconfirmed their intention to keep Operation Sophia and even to strengthen certain areas of the operation's actions”, she announced at the end of the informal meeting of defence ministers in Bucharest. However, Germany and Belgium recently announced that they will not make any...