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On Tuesday 18 May, MEPs held a lengthy debate on migrant rescue operations at sea and on the external dimension of European migration policy and called on the EU Council to make progress on the Pact on Migration and Asylum and to stop its ‘hypocrisy’ on sea rescues, as denounced by some MEPs.
The discussion was structured around a morning debate on rescue at sea and an afternoon debate on the protection of human rights in the EU’s external...