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France hopes from its partners, the Italians in the lead, a resumption of European cooperation in the face of rescue at sea and a clarification of the law of the sea.
By Emmanuel Berretta
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Il is wrong to say that the ship ocean viking did not attempt to disembark the migrants on board at the nearest “safe ports”. “Several countries did not respond to calls from the ship while it was in their search and rescue zone”, recalls the Ministry of the Interior before an extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) convened on Friday afternoon by the Czech Presidency.
Gérald Darmanin will find his Italian counterpart, Matteo Piantedosi, there with a view to resuming, he hopes, a European collaboration. No question of “playing a return match”, assures Place Bauveau, which has prepared, for its part, a set of measures that it hopes to share with its European partners. Overall, the French proposals fit…
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