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The Global Strategy draw the line of the EU’s area of interest in the Southern direction until Central Africa. With this, the line was just adjusted to the already existing relations. With the changing nature of the Transatlantic ties, other challenges emerged in the direction of Africa. The migration and refugee crisis showed the EU that geographical proximity matters, and Europeanization can be a game changer on the immediate borders. A dilemma on internal-external nexus appeared, and the European Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) faced new challenges. One of these were the already existing question of involvement in handling migration.
The Central Mediterranean migration route gained attention, when the number of arrivals started to grow in 2015 in Italy. In the same year, with one of the fastest processes, the EU launched EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia under the CSDP to collect information and stop migrant smuggling networks. Notwithstanding the initial rather positive attitude towards the military operation, in the coming years its role in the migration process draw up questions. Together with the lopsided attempt from the EU’s side to help migratory frontline countries, the attitude towards Operation Sophia changed completely. This led to the withdrawal of naval assets of a maritime operation. In 2020, the operation was completely rebranded to Operation Irini. What were the circumstances, which led to the transformation of the EUNAVFOR MED? Most importantly what kind of new challenges these pose to the CSDP in the future?
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The Global Strategy draw the line of the EU’s area of interest in the Southern direction until Central Africa. The migration and refugee crisis showed the EU that geographical proximity matters, and Europeanization can be a game changer on the immediate borders. A dilemma on internal-external nexus appeared, and the CSDP faced new challenges. One of these were the already existing question of involvement in handling migration.
The Central Mediterranean migration route gained attention, when the number of arrivals started to grow in 2015 in Italy. In the same year, with the fastest process, the EU launched EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia under the CSDP to collect information on and disrupt migrant smuggling networks. Notwithstanding the initial rather positive attitude towards the military operation, in the coming years its role in the migration process draw up questions. This led to the withdrawal of naval assets of a maritime operation. In 2020, the operation was completely rebranded to Operation Irini. What were the circumstances, which led to the transformation of the EUNAVFOR MED? Most importantly what kind of new challenges these pose to the CSDP in the future?
Keywords: Mediterranean, migration, Sophia, Irini, europeanization