MEPs from the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties tried, on Thursday 6 July, to obtain explanations and firm promises from the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, and the Executive Director of the Frontex agency, Hans Leijtens, following the shipwreck off the coast of Greece on 13 June, which left 78 people dead and potentially more than 600 missing.
In particular, the MEPs wanted to know whether this tragedy could have been avoided and how to prevent...