{"id":230715,"date":"2025-07-02T01:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230715\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:08:10","slug":"greece-eu-to-push-libya-on-curbing-crossings-on-deadly-mediterranean-migration-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230715\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece, EU to push Libya on curbing crossings on deadly Mediterranean migration route"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATHENS, Greece (AP) \u2014 The European Union<\/a> \u2019s commissioner for migration says Europe will take a \u201cfirm\u201d approach with authorities in Libya following a spike in illegal migration across the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Magnus Brunner plans to travel to Libya<\/a> next week with government representatives from Greece, Italy and Malta, seeking tougher measures from Libyan authorities to stop boats carrying migrants from leaving for Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is actually a question which bothers us quite a lot at the moment. Libya is, of course, at the top of the agenda, and we\u2019re traveling together to Libya next week because we have to be fast, I think, and firm,\u201d Brunner said Tuesday at a conference in Athens.<\/p>\n

Brunner, who discussed the upcoming visit at a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said the delegation would meet with representatives from both the United Nations-recognized government in western Libya and a rival authority in the east.<\/p>\n

Greece<\/a> recently announced plans to send warships to international waters in the region following a surge in crossings from Libya to the southern Greek island of Crete \u2014 a more perilous route than the more frequently used passage between Turkey and nearby Greek islands.<\/p>\n

In 2023, hundreds died when the fishing trawler Adriana, carrying migrants from Libya to Italy, sank off Greek waters<\/a>. ___<\/p>\n

Follow AP\u2019s global migration coverage at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/migration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS, Greece (AP) \u2014 The European Union \u2019s commissioner for migration says Europe will take a \u201cfirm\u201d approach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,4179,1450,90667,40,2199,6655,6656,90666,23906,24479,6657,285,8406,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-230715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-greece","14":"tag-greece-government","15":"tag-immigration","16":"tag-italy","17":"tag-kyriakos-mitsotakis","18":"tag-libya","19":"tag-libya-government","20":"tag-magnus-brunner","21":"tag-malta","22":"tag-migration","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-united-nations","25":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114780969736434398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}