How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa
The European Union is militarizing Africa's internal borders to curb migration, with little regard for human rights.
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The European Union is militarizing Africa's internal borders to curb migration, with little regard for human rights.
The ship from which the shots came was an ex-Italian Finance Guard boat, a "Carrubia Class" donated to Libya under the EU project "Support to Integrated Border and Migration Management in Libya".
The web of funds going towards the externalisation of the contentious issue is getting much wider.
Authorities based in eastern Libya on Saturday threatened to blockade oil exports over the Tripoli government's use of energy revenue, accusing it of wasting billions of dollars without providing real services. Libya has been locked in a political standoff since last year, when the parliament in eastern Libya rejected the interim Government of National Unity in Tripoli and designated a new administration that has been unable to take over in the capital.
Italian journalist Sara Creta has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to learn how Italian and EU public funds are used by the Libyan forces that intercept migrants. Italy's highest administrative court had rejected her request.