Migration Summit Yields Some Optimism, But Success Depends on Libya
In a show of solidarity, the heads-of-state from Europe’s Big Four—France, Spain, Italy and Germany—met in Paris recently with the UN-backed Libyan leader, and the heads-of-state of Chad and Niger, to tackle the ongoing migration crisis.
Some of the proposed measures of the mini-summit include support for the construction of a border wall in Libya, increasing development funding to Niger and Chad to provide alternative employment opportunities to smugglers, European Union support to improve the conditions of detention facilities in Libya—notorious for human rights abuses—and creating a legal channel for migrant resettlement in Europe by pre-screening the most vulnerable asylum-seekers at “hot-spots” in Niger and Chad.
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