EU border surveillance system not helping to save lives
Launched in December to help prevent boat migrants from drowning, the EU’s border surveillance system, Eurosur, has yet to deliver amid a sharp increase in the number of sea-crossing attempts.
“Unfortunately for the time-being, it [Eurosur] does not fulfil this service,” said Gil Aria Fernandez, deputy director at the EU’s border agency Frontex, in Brussels on Wednesday (14 May).
The Warsaw-based agency is tasked with analysing the “European situational picture” - information collected and inserted into the system by member states.
Eurosur is also set to accept satellite images in the near future, but will not offer any additional help when it comes to rescue missions, said Fernandez.
“This would not be even useful for preventing tragedies because the satellite images will be available to the border authorities hours or even days after,” he said.
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