The EU Foreign and Defense ministers have given a green light to the mission to fight against people smugglers operating in the
Head of the EU’s External Action Service Federica Mogerini hopes that a full and targeted destruction of the boats of smugglers by the EU will start from June this year. The operation will be comprised of 3 phases: information gathering, tracing and detection of boats and their direct destruction.
The aim of the mission is to break the business model, which turned deployment of people through the