EU Commissioner Avramopoulos inaugurates new European Migrant Smuggling Centre
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EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship inaugurated the new European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC) during the 2nd Business Forum of Europol and Interpol on migrant smuggling.
Avramopoulos said that "the Commission has pledged to support the European Migrant Smuggling Centre in order to become the information exchange hub in the fight against migrant smuggling".
As he said, the EU has declared war against smugglers and expressed the view that the fight would be victorious. According to the Greek Commissioner, more than 1 million people sought refuge in the EU in 2015 and as he noted "the smuggling of migrants is a phenomenon that transcends national borders and for this reason can only be eliminated effectively by a collective effort."
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