What Is The Answer To This Escalating Tragic Problem?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31414009

Should Italy be forced to provide a better and more efficient rescue force, or should it be up to the EU?

Money should be no object to this problem, but what should happen if such a rescue force was put into action, the occupants of these flimsy vessels on rescue they should be taken back from whence they came.

After a time these economic refugees would come to realise that paying these ship owners large sums of money was a waste of time, in fact their whole idea of getting to Europe was a waste of time.

[Bazile]

Could it be that Italy and other countries are turning a blind eye to , or should i say operating a deliberate policy of reluctance in rescuing these people ?

[Pocket_Rocket]

Italy is pretty much first stop from N Africa, and they started a rescue force after a previous similar tragedy. They ran it for a year, but stopped it a few months ago. I think Italy feel they've used enough resources. and rescued enough migrants - maybe they feel Rightly IMO) it's someone else's turn.

[-Talbot-]

A well thought out response, divebuddy.

[Prudie]

Is it not only because geographically Lampedusa is the nearest EU land to Libya that this has become considered to be Italy's problem? It's not, it's all of the EU. In fact Italy have already done their bit IMO, time someone else helped.