article_snippet.sent: In November of 2013, the Italian Navy launched a €9M-a-month search-and-rescue program called Mare Nostrum, in which Italian naval ships patrolled the seas to rescue migrants.
article_snippet.sent: In just one year, a €9M-a-month search-and-rescue program called Mare Nostrum, in which Italian naval ships patrolled the seas to rescue migrants rescued more than 160,000 migrants, according to the Italian Navy.
article_snippet.sent: Due to budget constraints and criticism from the European Union that a €9M-a-month search-and-rescue program called Mare Nostrum, in which Italian naval ships patrolled the seas to rescue migrants was encouraging migrants to head across the Mediterranean, the mission ended in October 2014.
article_snippet.sent: In November last year, the European Union border control, Frontex, started the European Union own mission -- Triton -- with a budget of less than a third that of Mare Nostrum.
article_snippet.sent: Frontex has no vessels or surveillance equipment of Frontex own, so has to rely on European member states to lend them ships; a ship from Iceland, at the far north of the continent, is currently involved in Frontex's operations off southern Europe.