article_snippet.sent: A mass grave is being created in the Mediterranean Sea and European policies are responsible," said De Filippi.
article_snippet.sent: Faced with thousands of desperate people fleeing wars and crises, Europe has closed borders, forcing people in search of protection to risk people lives and die at sea," De Filippi said.
article_snippet.sent: Italy's proximity to the North African coast puts Italy's proximity to the North African coast on the front line of tackling the continent's migration crisis.
article_snippet.sent: We're swamped," Sandro Gozi, the Italian minister for European affairs, told French daily Le Monde.
article_snippet.sent: There's not even enough space in Sicily's cemeteries to bury the dead.
article_snippet.sent: the European Union border control agency, Frontex, started the European Union own mission in November, known as Triton, with a budget of less than a third of that of Mare Nostrum.
article_snippet.sent: Frontex has no vessels or surveillance equipment of Frontex own, so has to rely on European member states to lend Frontex ships.
article_snippet.sent: As anti-immigrant parties thrive across the continent, European nations are collectively struggling to cope with the migration crisis on European nations doorstep.
article_snippet.sent: We fingers that another one doesn't happen," Gozi told Le Monde, lamenting "a total absence" of the European Union policy on how to deal with refugees arriving in Europe.