About the Mediterranean, Start with Saving Lives

Expand Migrants are seen onboard the charity ship Lifeline at Boiler Wharf in Senglea, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Malta June 27, 2018. © 2018 Reuters Following his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week, French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that he wanted “to make the Mediterranean a chance and not a fear.” But does he mean Europeans’ fears of foreigners, manipulated by their leaders, or asylum seekers’ fear of death at sea or being returned to detention and torture in Libya? And is the Mediterranean a chance for Europeans to use it as a barrier to keep asylum seekers…

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