Die EU ist ja seit langem bemüht, Libyen in die Migrationskontrolle zu integrieren. Diese Woche ließ sich in der Presse verfolgen, wie kompliziert das ist.
Am Dienstag, den 7. April 2009, meldete AFP: EU urges Libya to work to stop illegal immigration.
The European Union urged Libya Tuesday to boost cooperation in the fight against illegal immigration but the price Tripoli is asking is too high, EU Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot said.
“Libya is asking for funding and logistical means for the surveillance of its southern border,” he told AFP, after talks in Brussels with Libyan EU Ambassador Al Hadi Hadeiba.
“But meeting these demands is very difficult. It’s not certain that African countries would accept that a fund for problems linked to immigration be filled from the European development fund,” he said.
Libyen nutzt seine Verhandlungsmacht also sehr stark, kam dann aber am nächsten Tag der EU entgegen:
Interior Minister Abdelfattah Yunis al-Obeidi on Wednesday ordered stricter supervision of Libya’s coastline as part of moves to curb illegal migration to Europe.
He called for “continued surveillance of Libyan beaches and setting up of control points in the zones from which illegal crossings to Europe are organised”, the state news agency JANA reported.
“More stringent measures are needed against the people traffickers”, he said, as well as controls on the movements of fishing boats and on workshops used to build the makeshift trawlers used for the trafficking.
Es ist also ein beständiges Tauziehen, und ob die schon so oft verschobenen italienisch-lybischen Patrouillen tatsächlich am 15. Mai starten werden, steht wohl weiter in den Sternen.