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"Mr President, I think this is a good innovation – more like Prime Minister’s Question Time in the House of Commons, the Mother of Parliaments, so perhaps the centre of the European democracy is following the Mother of Parliaments.
Does the EU provide any financial assistance to NGOs engaged in search and rescue in the Mediterranean?
Is Frontex hiding anything we should all know about, since we are paying them? I think this place should know more.
On 15 December 2016, the Financial Times, which I am sure you all know, published several excerpts from leaked Frontex reports that suggest a high level of cooperation between smugglers and NGOs:
‘…criminal networks were smuggling migrants directly on an NGO vessel’;
‘…clear indications before departure on the precise direction to be followed in order to reach the NGO boats’
‘…people rescued by NGO vessels were often “not willing to cooperate with debriefing experts at all, with some claiming that they were warned not to cooperate with Italian law enforcement or Frontex”.’
This period has also witnessed a surge in NGO activity in the region and a sharp drop in rescues in response to distress signals. Frontex suggested the latter is due to ‘NGOs cooperating closer to Libyan territorial waters’ or even the lights used by rescue boats, which the agency said acted ‘as a beam for the migrants’.
Does the Commission believe that such actions constitute cooperation with the smugglers, and if not, could it define what would?
Does it believe that such actions constitute collusion, and if not would it define what would?"@en1
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