On 9 July, at the invitation of the Luxembourg Presidency of the EU Deputy Prime Minister Thomas Zwiefelhofer, an informal Council of EU Justice and Home Affairs and Schengen associated countries (Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) discussed the migration situation in the Mediterranean Sea. Although Liechtenstein is landlocked , the irregular migration by sea has increased dramatically over the past year and reached a new high which affects member states. Smuggling of migrants has become an extremely lucrative business, in which criminal networks take advantage of a low risk of detection and sanction. In the migration agenda adopted by the European Commission, migrant smuggling has been set as a priority objective. Through an enhanced police and judicial cooperation among member states and with other countries, with the involvement of FRONTEX and Europol, the exploitation of migrants by criminal networks is prevented and the incentives for irregular migration are reduced.