article_snippet.sent: Nor was Frontex "a coordinating body for search and rescue operations.
article_snippet.sent: Britain -- for example -- is not.
article_snippet.sent: It's perhaps no coincidence that immigration is a hot-button issue in Britain, with the UK Independence Party attacking the Conservative-led coalition government for being soft on allowing foreigners into Britain.
article_snippet.sent: The task could not be "left only to the southern countries," she insisted.
article_snippet.sent: Jean-Claude Junker said the current budget of Frontex - some 90 million euros ($97 million) - was "a good start but does not yet equal the task of protecting Europe's common borders.
article_snippet.sent: That money has to cover all Frontex's roles -- and it's not only the Italian coast that is being targeted by migrants.