As About 100 Migrants Are Missing In The Mediterranean Sea, The Eu Begs Australia For Advice?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38623678

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/754368/australia-eu-migration-migrants-boat-continent-brussels-border-force-meeting

[THECORBYLOON]

To answer your question, yes the EU has asked Australia for advice, according to the claim.

[Baldric]

These people are effectively invading Europe,
No one has asked them to get on their silly little boats.
It is their choice and the blame belongs with them.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

/// To answer your question, yes the EU has asked Australia for advice, according to the claim. ///

Did I ask the question, "Has the EU asked Australia for advice"?

[mushroom25]

given the disputed nature of sovereignty of the gulf of sidra, it's hard to understand what the Italian coastguard is doing being as close as 30 miles from the Libyan coast.

[ToraToraTora]

well the Aussies do have some idea how to deal with this. the EU hasn't got a scooby how to stop the boats and once they are in the Schengen area, game over, so it can't hurt can it.

[Zacs-Master]

Seems like a sensible thing to do to me. Not sure why the Express has to use the word 'beg' in its headline but, hey.

[New Judge]

"These people are effectively invading Europe..."

Careful Balders! I've been saying that on and off for the last eighteen months and almost every time I have been told I was being (variously) sensationalist, ridiculous, reactionary or just plain daft.

[hereIam]

Not from me, I agree with you.

[Baldric]

Whatever NJ, but lets be honest, however you view it, it's true, I have seriously run out of sympathy for the Bleeding Heart Brigade.

[EDDIE51]

The Australian situation is so different from the EU that I can't see much common ground that will be helpful.

[Answerprancer]

I find it both ironic and unnecessary that the militant intolerant types on this forum are usually the first to strike out against anyone whose ideals they oppose using inflammatory labels like "brigade".
I'm sure it's deliberate and done to start an argument.

[anotheoldgit]

Answerprancer

/// using inflammatory labels like "brigade".
I'm sure it's deliberate and done to start an argument. ///

Certainly caused an argument back in 1854.