article_snippet: At the end of the year the Italian government closed their comprehensive search and rescue operation Mare Nostrum, which cost nine million euros a month, saying it was too much responsibility for Italy alone.
article_snippet: it was replaced by the scaled-down Triton mission, a border control operation which patrols only the area 30 miles around the European coast.
article_snippet: Mauro Casinghini, Head of Rescue for the Order of Malta in Italy, said that Frontex was ‘no substitute’ for Mare Nostrum.
article_snippet: The summer season for travel no longer exists He said.