'Border surveillance' primary focus of EU migrant plan, 'real solution has not been discussed'

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday visited the Italian island of Lampedusa, which is struggling with a surge in migrant arrivals, and promised a 10-point EU action plan to help Italy deal with the situation. For more analysis and perspective on the EU's solutions to migration, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza is joined by Sara Prestianni, Euromed Rights' Head of Thematic Programmes Unit. Ms. Prestianni takes strong issue with the EU action plan, deriding it as "nothing new at all" and that the "solutions are not really solutions."



Nearly 126,000 migrants have arrived in Italy so far this

year, almost double the figure by the same date in 2022.