Reacting on Wednesday 8 April to the deaths of at least 70 migrants in the shipwreck in the Mediterranean on 5 April, Italian Socialist Sandra Zampa, Chair of the Migration Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, reiterated the Assembly’s call in 2025 “for the re-establishment of large-scale European search-and-rescue operations, including the creation of a European sea search-and-rescue corps, with the sole mandate of saving lives”.
She called for this to...