Tag: Sea rescue
EU debate on sea rescue: humanitarian duty or pull factor?
As of: March 28, 2024 4:26 a.m Countries like Italy and Malta often take action against private sea rescuers. Aid organizations speak of a violation of the law and are…
Sea rescue: Serious allegations against Libya’s coast guard
As of: March 3, 2024 2:56 p.m The organization SOS Humanity claims to have rescued 77 people in the Mediterranean. But she was hindered – by the Libyan coast guard,…
SOS Humanity: German sea rescue ship arrested in Italy
As of: December 4th, 2023 3:40 p.m 20 days of blockade plus a fine: Italian authorities have arrested the German sea rescue ship “Humanity 1”, according to the aid organization…
Foreign Office: Germany will finance civil sea rescue until 2026
As of: October 7th, 2023 2:39 p.m The Foreign Office has contradicted a media report about the controversial financing of private sea rescuers. The government will not stop the payments…
Federal government no longer wants to finance sea distress activists | politics
It is one of the most sensitive questions of the next federal budget: Will Germany continue to finance the private “emergency rescuers” on the Mediterranean? According to BILD information, the…
Help for smugglers? Debate about German subsidies for sea rescuers – politics
Criticism of German support for private refugee rescuers on the Mediterranean is increasing in the Union. After Wolfgang Schäuble, the deputy leader of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag,…
Italy and Germany: Dispute over sea rescuers – politics
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was on a business trip to Berlin this week, and that didn’t improve his mood. Even in the press conference after the conversation with his…
Elon Musk shares tweet from an AfD sympathizer about sea rescue – politics
Billionaire Elon Musk used his Internet platform X (formerly Twitter) to intervene in German politics a week before the state elections in Bavaria and Hesse. On Friday he shared a…
Meloni is amazed at German financial aid for sea rescuers – politics
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is under pressure because of the current high number of migrants, and now she is shooting against Chancellor Olaf Scholz. In a letter to him,…
Mediterranean Sea: Almost 200 migrants rescued – Politics
Sea rescuers from German aid organizations have taken dozens of migrants on board their ships in the Mediterranean. Sea-Watch steered 72 people on the 14 meter long lifeboat aurora the…