On Wednesday 17 July, MEPs gathered in Parliament's plenary session expressed, not surprisingly, widely divergent positions on how to deal with asylum seeker flows and landings in the Mediterranean Sea.
The debate began with the intervention of the Finnish Minister for European Affairs, Tytti Tuppurainen.
While concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Mediterranean Sea and the number of deaths that is still too high, she mentioned figures from the European Border and Coast Guard...