Juri Ratas

Functional responsibility for the repeated efforts of the European Councilt to rhetorically marginalize refugees, including efforts to frame the refugee crisis as a matter of "illegal migration," a phrase used repeatedly, e.g. in the Council conclusions of October 2017 and June 2018  (See European Council Report: 2017: The Libyan Coastguards; European Council Report: 2018)

Functional responsibility for the decisions of the European Council from 01/2015–07/2019

This includes:

• the December 2016 Council conclusions, which emphasized the goal of supporting the Libyan coastguard through Operation Sophia (See European Council Report, 2016)

• the 2017 Malta conference, at which Council members called for EU to "train, equip and support the Libyan national coast guard" (See European Council Report: 2017: The Libyan Coastguards)

• the June 2018 conclusions, which called on “all vessels... not [to] obstruct operations of the Libyan coastguard.” (See European Council Report: 2018)