Tunisians—and Top E.U. Generals—Fear Mission Creep Madness in Libya
A newly revealed classified document and a history of grave misjudgments warn against the dangers of the new E.U. plan to stop migrants.
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TUNIS — In this small North African country where the Arab Spring started and chaos now threatens from every direction, developments in Europe are followed with growing anxiety. Each time the powerful nations across the Mediterranean make dramatic moves to try to stabilize the region, they seem to make things worse. Libya’s tyrant was ousted in 2011 only to be replaced by warlords, militias, and murderers who’ve driven a million Libyans across the frontier into Tunisia.
Now Europe’s defense chiefs are warning their political superiors that the planned military mission to stop migrant-smuggling boats crossing the Mediterranean can lead to land operations in Libya and possible clashes with the Islamic State’s affiliate in that failing North African state, a turn of events bound to threaten neighboring Tunisia’s fragile equilibrium still further.
The new EU Migration Agenda takes shape: analysis of the first new measures
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“This week the European Commission took its first steps towards implementing its new EU Migration Agenda (previously discussed here). A number of the items in the agenda have already been addressed (for instance, the military mission against smugglers on the Libyan coast, as discussed here). Others will be addressed later: a broader reform of legal migration law and changes to the rules on asylum procedures and the ‘Dublin’ rules on responsibility for asylum-seekers.
The first batch of measures contained five different elements. First of all, the Commission launched a public consultation on the reform of the existing EU law providing for a ‘Blue Card’ for the admission of highly-skilled non-EU migrants. I have commented previously here on the implementation of this law and the reforms to it which should be adopted.”
Migrants en Méditerranée : la Tunisie contre toute intervention militaire - RTBF Monde
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