The European Union signed an agreement with Egypt on Sunday for the first phase of an 80 million-euro border management programme, a statement from the EU delegation in Cairo said, at a time when Egyptian migration to Europe has been rising, reported Reuters.
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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, according to InfoMigrants Website.
Oil prices increased Thursday after their biggest decline Wednesday by close to 6 percent, down to its lowest level in nearly 9 months, specifically since January 2022.
Tunisian authorities said Monday they intercepted or rescued over 200 migrants trying to reach Europe by sea at the weekend, including an entire extended family from the economic crisis-hit country.
France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States has welcomed “the progress made in the talks between the Joint Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR) and High Council of State (HCS) in Cairo facilitated by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL),” according to the US Department of State.
European Union ambassador to Libya, Jose Sabadell, has described the armed clashes that erupted in Tripoli Friday evening as “shocking and shameful”.
Europe has been accused by a senior international official of acquiescence over the plight of thousands of migrants in Libya held in arbitrary detention in “deplorable conditions”.
The Kremlin announced Wednesday that halting natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria over the refusal to pay in rubles was a response to unfriendly steps towards Russia, and that it is not practicing blackmail.
More than 100 people have lost their lives in the past week alone in two separate incidents in the Central Mediterranean as a result of the EU and its member states’ deadly policies towards refugees and migrants, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF) organization.
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Libyan Parliament, Yousef al-Aqouri, called on the Head of the European Union delegation to Libya to urge the outgoing Prime Minister, Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh, to respect the rules of democracy and the resolution of the Parliament.