The EU is using smuggling as a red herring in the absence of meaningful, viable policies | Alexander Betts
Today on BBC News, the RSC Director, Professor #Alexander_Betts, spoke of his lack of surprise at the failure of #Operation_Sophia, the EU’s naval operation to stop people smugglers in the Mediterranean. He comments that, “Militarised responses to smuggling tend not to work. What politicians have failed to recognise for a long time is that smuggling doesn’t cause migration, it responds to an underlying demand to migrate, and until we address the underlying reasons why desperate and vulnerable people are coming to Europe, attacking smugglers won’t work by itself. All it will do is increase the price for those desperate people to cross, and lead to ever more dangerous journeys.”
▻http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/the-eu-is-using-smuggling-as-a-red-herring-in-the-absence-of-meaningful-vi
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