article_snippet.sent: Europe has been urged to copy Australia's military-led 'stop the boats' policy to avoid migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: Australian PM Tony Abbott – who sends naval gunboats to turn back asylum seekers before asylum seekers reach Australia – said Europe should 'urgently' follow Tony Abbott lead.
article_snippet.sent: That's why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people-smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.'
article_snippet.sent: In the Mediterranean, callous people smugglers have been exploiting a willingness by European nations to rescue migrants rather than send callous people smugglers back.
article_snippet.sent: Migrants are then matched with a country that will resettle Migrants.
article_snippet.sent: Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said refugees also needed to be persuaded to stay in refugees home countries in the first place. '
article_snippet.sent: We've got to start in their home countries.
article_snippet.sent: We've got to deal with the traffickers,' Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said, adding Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond 'absolutely' supported a 'more formidable operation on the sea'.
article_snippet.sent: and I think that people all around the country will recognise this.'