Triton to be launched in November

After a meeting in Luxembourg on 9 October, the home affairs ministers agreed to launch "in November" an EU external border surveillance operation in the Mediterranean, dubbed Triton, steered by Frontex. It will not replace Italy's Mare Nostrum operation, which has greater financial resources and different objectives (rescue of immigrants). But if the circumstances arise, Frontex will have to rescue immigrants in distress as obliged under international law of the sea. At the same time, with the rising numbers of…