Libya key to EU plan to build a “big wall” against migration, says new report 16 March 2021 Libya lies at the heart of a strategy for which funds from Italy, EU institutions and other member states have been channelled through an opaque financing mechanism with the central aim of reducing migration from Africa to Europe, says a new report by ActionAid. Investment against migration Placed outside the EU budget, and therefore not subject to scrutiny by the European Parliament, a total of €1.337 billion from the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa was spent across the continent over five years to tackle migration through “extraordinary interventions”.