(Politico) The European Commission is pushing to create guidelines for the NGO boats rescuing migrants off Europe’s shores as part of a plan to reduce the number of asylum seekers heading to the Continent.
The plan, presented Monday by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, comes amid a public feud between France and Italy’s new right-wing government over arriving migrants and the NGO boats that often rescue them at sea.
After pleading for days to be allowed to dock in Italy, one of these migrant rescue ships went to France instead — igniting acrimony with Paris and a discussion over the role of NGOs in the process.
