The operators of Aquarius 2 have announced they are bringing 58 migrants to the French port of Marseille. The rescue ship has been repeatedly turned away by Italy and forced to stop in Malta and Spain in recent months.
A decree adopted by the Italian government will make it easier to expel migrants and strip them of Italian citizenship. Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini says the bill will make the country safer.
The Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babis, says his country will not accept one single refugee, and neither should the rest of the European Union.
The Spanish Foreign Minister, Joseph Borrell, says US President Trump advised Spain to build a wall in Africa to halt migrant flows.
The EU-IOM Joint Initiative recently launched a website where it will provide first-hand migrant accounts as well as data and updates on the migration situation in the Mediterranean.