The route from North Africa to Italy and Malta has become the world's deadliest. Officials estimate that 700 migrants may have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank at the weekend, in the worst maritime disaster in the Mediterranean since WWII. And they keep on coming. Yet EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said ahead of an EU gathering that there was "no magic solution". Has Europe lost its compassion?

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