France, Germany, and Italy have called on the EU to make more use of foreign policy on the migrant crisis.
Their foreign ministers outlined their ideas in an informal paper sent to EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini on Monday (15 June).
The paper, seen by EUobserver, endorses Mogherini’s proposal to launch an EU military operation, EUnavfor Med, to sink migrant smugglers’ boats.
It says an EU-Africa Union summit in Malta later this year should “be used in order ...
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