Upon her arrival at the Foreign Affairs Council on 22 June, High Representative Federica Mogherini was enthusiastic about the “unanimity and speed" with which the EUNAVFOR mission was set up. To compensate for the absence of a green light from the United Nations and despite the negotiations still underway with the different Libyan factions, the EU committed to launching the first phase of the operation only, which concerns gathering information on the traffickers' “business model,” achieved via remote monitoring of…
