After Budafel and Monfalco, Spain calls for tougher EU regulations on rescue at sea
Spain has requested the European Council of Ministers to adopt new, tougher regulations on rescue at sea, in a move which echoes the country’s frustrations after the “Monfalco” incident last May – when Malta refused to take responsibility for a group of 26 migrants from the Ivory Coast, rescued by a Spanish fishing trawler outside its own search and rescue (SAR) region.

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