BRUSSELS: The European Union admitted on Tuesday to a “difficult situation” after a journalism consortium said Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania were dumping migrants in the desert, using the bloc’s funds.
The wide-ranging investigation by Lighthouse Reports with outlets including Le Monde and The Washington Post paints the EU as complicit in a “system of mass displacement” and serious rights abuses.
“Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in...