Welcome to a new episode of The Geopolitical Puzzle.
This year, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk expressed alarm at the precarious situation of asylum-seekers and migrants attempting to cross the Central Mediterranean and called for concerted efforts to ensure their swift rescue and dignified, effective, and thorough processing at a safe location.
Since 2014, over 26,000 people have died or gone missing crossing the Mediterranean, including over 20,000 along the Central Mediterranean route, and it is considered among the most dangerous migration routes in the world.
For this new episode, my guest is Clint Azzopardi Flores.
Clint Azzopardi Flores is an economist from Malta. He has worked in Brussels, Belgium, representing the Maltese Government in the EU.
In 2018, Azzopardi Flores was appointed Ambassador to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union, where he held the position for four years.
During his tenure, he witnessed different crises, including the Libyan and Syrian crises, the negotiations of the European Peace Facility, and the negotiations of the new Military Mission Operation Irini.
In this episode, we discuss the geopolitical implications of the Mediterranean Sea migrant crisis.
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Host: Juan Carlos Giraldo
Production: Podcast and Business
Music: Inspirational Epic Cinematic - Pixabay Music