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Experts: EU's plans to save migrants won't work

EU leaders, meeting in Brussels, announce new measures designed to prevent a repeat of last Sunday's migrant boat tragedy.

Jerome Hughes
Press TV, Brussels

EU leaders, meeting in Brussels, announce new measures designed to prevent a repeat of last Sunday's migrant boat tragedy, which claimed at least 800 lives in the Mediterranean. However, campaign groups, such as Amnesty International, say the bloc's plan, supposedly to protect migrants attempting to enter Europe by sea, does not go far enough because EU member states are not being compelled to provide asylum.