EU and Greece criticized for failure to protect migrants from drowning
Syrian survivor Fedi, 18 (right) one of 104 people who were rescued from the Aegean Sea after their fishing boat crammed with migrants sank, reacts as he reunites with his brother Mohammad, who came from Italy to meet him, at the port of Kalamata, Greece, June 16, 2023
CRITICISM over the European Union’s failure to agree to a comprehensive migration and asylum policy mounted today as rescue operations for the shipwreck in Greece reached day three.
A packed fishing vessel carried hundreds of people capsized and sank in the early hours of Wednesday.
As many as 500 passengers may have gone down with the trawler, which was travelling from Libya to Italy, according to the International Organisation for Migration.
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