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Over the last couple of days, we've been on board the charity rescue ship, The Ocean Viking,

looking into the costs of migration and smuggling across the Mediterranean Sea.

We've heard what people have to pay to make that perilous journey.

I arrived in Libya and was kidnapped.

Went to jail. I had to pay $1,000.

Then I was kidnapped again as I tried to escape Libya in a boat and I was put in another jail.

And we've heard the increasing financial challenges for charity-funded rescue operations.

We actually are facing at the same time of the increase of the prices, a decrease in the donations.

In this episode, we're turning to the European countries the people we've been following are trying to get to.

What is the impact on those countries socially and financially?

And what resources are the European Union using to try to stop this kind of migration across the Mediterranean?

I think no country on Earth is able to absorb everyone who wants to come there for whatever reason.

The Commission is relentlessly working to ensure that we can have a stable, long-term solution.

That's all coming up here on Business Daily.

This year, several tragedies have drawn a regular migration in the Mediterranean back into the public's attention.

Hundreds of lives lost as overloaded boats capsize off European coasts.

We've heard some of the reasons people are pushed into these journeys.

But what we haven't addressed yet is Europe's response to what's going on.

We know that we need to manage migration.

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