MEPs debated again on Wednesday 15 March in Strasbourg how to prevent the deaths of dozens of migrants at sea trying to reach the EU and agreed on a common response.
MEPs returned to the story of the shipwreck of 68 people off the coast of Crotone, Calabria, at the end of February, and a large number of them called for both the rapid adoption of the ‘Migration and Asylum Pact’ and the development of a European rescue and recovery force at sea, as requested by the Renew Europe Group.