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EU moving anti-piracy HQ
August 3 , 2018
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- European Union countries have decided to move the headquarters of the bloc's anti-piracy Atalanta patrols from London to the Spanish port of Rota on March 29,2019.
- The London-based Maritime Security Centre Horn of Africa, which informs shipping about piracy threats off Somalia, is also to be shifted to the French Port of Brest.
- The EU launched Atalanta in 2008 to fight brazen acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia, including the spectacular hijacking of a Spanish tuna boat in 2009.
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