“The status quo cannot continue”, the Special Envoy for the Mediterranean of the Office of the High Commissioner for the United Nations, Vincent Cochetel reacted, on Friday 5 July. He was speaking the day after the discovery of a new shipwreck between Libya and Tunisia on the evening of 3 July, following which 80 people were reported missing, according to two survivors. “Nobody puts their lives and the lives of their families at risk on these desperate boat journeys unless they...