On the eve of ‘World Refugee Day’, Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, appealed from Lampedusa on Monday 19 June to the Member States to stand – “not in words, but in actions” – by their promises to defend European values made in the ‘Reykjavik Declaration’ adopted at the organisation’s last summit in May.
“It’s impossible not to reflect on the situation that persists in the Mediterranean and elsewhere”, she says, denouncing...