article_snippet.sent: French President Francois Hollande called for the European Union to help more in the rescue.
article_snippet.sent: Human Rights Watch urged the EU to act quickly.
article_snippet.sent: the EU is standing by with arms crossed while hundreds die off the EU shores," said Judith Sunderland, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
article_snippet.sent: These deaths might well have been prevented if the EU the EU had launched a genuine search-and-rescue effort.
article_snippet.sent: the EU the EU released a statement Sunday saying that the EU planned action down the road but didn't detail any immediate plans to help with the search for the victims of this accident.
article_snippet.sent: These are human lives at stake, and the European Union as a whole has a moral and humanitarian obligation to act," the European Union as a whole said.
article_snippet.sent: the EU is consulting member states, European agencies and international organizations to prepare what the EU called a European Migration Strategy, which would be adopted in
article_snippet.sent: middle May. the EU stressed the need to "address the situation at middle May. roots."
article_snippet.sent: Roberta Metsola, a Maltese member of the European Parliament, told CNN on Sunday that countries from Northern Europe need to share the responsibility with countries from Northern Europe southern neighbors.