article_snippet.sent: European Union ministers met Monday in Luxembourg and proposed a 10-point plan to help address the crisis.
article_snippet.sent: We are not yet working on numbers, but what We have agreed on today is, for sure, the need to increase significantly the resources at sea, and the level of the operation, doing more search and rescue and doing it more together," said Federica Mogherini, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security police.
article_snippet.sent: Mogherini told CNN that European Union must fight human traffickers, strengthen Europeans' duty to save lives at sea and share responsibility when it comes to the resettlement and relocation of refugees.
article_snippet.sent: We need to fight the organizations that are trafficking and smuggling people, so that We can prevent desperate people from leaving in desperate conditions," Mogherini said.
article_snippet.sent: But some groups said European officials were offering too little too late.
article_snippet.sent: What we needed from EU foreign ministers today was life-saving action, but they dithered," said Justin Forsyth, the chief executive of Save The Children.
article_snippet.sent: With each day we delay we lose more innocent lives and Europe slips further into an immoral abyss," Forsyth said in a statement.