The Commission commends the assistance that NATO has provided for the EU in the fight against illegal migration. According to the news Agency Europe Press, with joint efforts they managed to detain about 150 vessels used for the transport of refugees in the Mediterranean sea, and arrested about 70 people, organized this illegal business.
“This is a serious blow to the business models of carriers of migrants”, – said the EU high representative for foreign Affairs and security policy Federica Mogherini. According to her, in the context of the military operations of the EU and NATO has also helped to save the lives of 14 thousand people.
Mogherini believes that it is necessary to continue cooperation with NATO is directed at the destruction of networks of human smugglers, to coordinate further steps to establish the exchange of intelligence.
Due to intensifying conflicts in some countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa the number of refugees arriving in Europe from these regions, has increased dramatically. In the countries of the Old world in 2015 arrived more than a million migrants.
