Brussels, 24/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - Maritime patrols in the central Mediterranean are not effectively combating illegal immigration, according to Ilka Laitinen, Director of Frontex, the EU's external border agency. “Unfortunately, increased EU patrols in the Mediterranean are failing to prevent an increase in clandestine migrants reaching Italy, Malta and Greece by sea”, he pointed out on Saturday 20 September in Brussels, as reported by the Times of Malta. Figures in hand, he...