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Almost exactly a year ago, in May 2017, close to 23,000 migrants crossed the Mediterranean sea and reached the shores of Italy. This May, the number of migrants from Libya had dropped to 4,000. This meant an almost sixfold decrease. This drop coincides with a number of measures the EU and EU member states put in place together with Libya’s UN […]

Despite harsh weather conditions and rough seas, UNHCR estimates that more than 80,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe by boat during the first six weeks of 2016, a figure which already exceeds that of the first four months of 2015. Consequently, EU countries have been discussing and implementing policy changes in response to this large […]