article_snippet.sent: This number is a sharp rise from just 47 in the same period of 2014, said the Geneva-based International Organisation for Migration.
article_snippet.sent: The number of migrant boats trying to reach the EU from Africa has risen in recent weeks as fine weather makes the route safer.
article_snippet.sent: Save the Children and other humanitarian groups have called for EU to bolster EU rescue operations before the number of boats soars in summer, as it usually does.
article_snippet.sent: The number of migrant boats trying to reach EU has risen in recent weeks as fine weather makes the route safer.
article_snippet.sent: Giovanna Di Benedetto, a Save the Children official who assisted the new arrivals, told The Times:
article_snippet.sent: Many are now talking about fleeing fundamentalists.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU’s commissioner for migration, said Europe must adapt to deal with the rising numbers of migrants.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The unprecedented influx of migrants at our borders, and in particular refugees, is unfortunately the new norm,’
article_snippet.sent: More than 280,000 people entered EU EU illegally last year.