article_snippet.sent: Other member states, from France to Latvia, also lined up more ships, planes and helicopters that could be used to rescue migrants.
article_snippet.sent: Escalating crisis: A migrant is stretchered off to hospital by the Italian Red Cross at the port of Salerno after being rescued by the tanker Chimera along with 545 other refugees in the Mediterranean .
article_snippet.sent: Despite the sudden deluge of goodwill, huge questions remained about whether it would be enough to defeat the smugglers and human traffickers. '
article_snippet.sent: In the past week alone, more than 10,000 people have been plucked from the seas between Italy and Libya as desperate migrants fleeing war and poverty threw more than 10,000 people lot in with smugglers who charged up to $2,000 for a spot on overcrowded boats to make the perilous crossing.
article_snippet.sent: Countries like Germany, Sweden, France and Italy have dealt with a disproportionate number of asylum requests while many eastern and Baltic member states take hardly any.
article_snippet.sent: Five of the 28 member states are handling almost 70 per cent of the migrants coming in.