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The rescue ship "Alan Kurdi" in April 2020
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The emergency rescue ship "Alan Kurdi" of the German aid organization Sea-Eye has apparently taken 114 people on board in the Mediterranean.
This was announced by the aid organization.
90 people were rescued from a rubber dinghy and 24 from an overloaded fishing boat.
"For fear of being dragged back by Libyan militias, these people did not make an emergency call," said the chairman of the aid organization, Gorden Isler.
The discovery of the boat refugees was "unlikely luck".
Neither the Libyan authorities nor the European rescue coordination centers had responded to the emergency reports from "Alan Kurdi".
Ylva Johansson plans to reform migration policy
EU Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson wants to present her plans for reforming asylum and migration policy, which have been postponed several times, next Wednesday.
She calls for a solidarity system for dealing with refugees in the EU.
"All member states have to help when one member state comes under pressure, when many people seek protection," Johansson told the AFP news agency.
Faced with opposition from several EU states to accepting asylum seekers, Johansson said states should think about possible "types of assistance".
In particular, the so-called Visegrad Group from Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia had rejected the relocation of refugees in the EU in recent years.
The proposal comes two weeks after the largest refugee camp in the EU went up in flames on the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving almost 13,000 people homeless.
Month after month, numerous people try to get to Europe in unseaworthy boats from Africa across the Mediterranean.
Last year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 1,283 people drowned.
In the past five years there have been a total of more than 19,000 deaths.
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