BRUSSELS (AP) — Spurred into action by a massive loss of lives in the Mediterranean, the European Union's executive arm has proposed a 10-point action plan for dealing with the unprecedented migrant influx. Here's a look at each point of the plan, which will be fleshed out by EU leaders at a crisis summit Thursday, and how likely each is to help the situation: Provide more money and assets for EU operations in the Mediterranean, such as the Triton border mission, which manages the bloc's borders and monitors migrant flows. The 28 EU member states continually pay lip-service to beefing up the Frontex border agency, of which Triton is a part. Get EU police, legal, asylum and border agencies to help track down smugglers by stepping up cooperation and information-gathering. Reality check: EU member states are notoriously reluctant to share information. The EU's data supervisor held up an exchange of intelligence between the police agency Europol and border agency Frontex for about four months over privacy concerns. While paying lip-service to solidarity and burden-sharing, member states are reluctant to provide resources. No binding system exists to force countries to respect their pledges to share the burden. EU EPP lawmaker Monika Hohlmeier spoke Tuesday of one member state official who asked her whether his country could pay for asylum seekers to be housed in another EU nation "because their public wouldn't like the idea." Deploy immigration officers to key countries — chiefly Niger, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt and Turkey — to gather intelligence on migration flows and strengthen the role of EU delegations in those countries.
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