The EU delivered two patrol boats to Libya in a ceremony on Thursday (22 June) in the Sicilian city of Messina in the presence of European Commission officials, the Italian authorities, and the Tripoli-based coastguard, according to a press statement on Friday (23 June), Euractiv reported.
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The first meeting of the Libya-Italy Military Cooperation Committee in 2023 was held in Tripoli between 7 and 8 June, revealed the Ministry of Defense of the Government of National Unity of Libya (GNU) in a statement on its Facebook page yesterday.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani met today as part of the premier’s high-level visit to Rome.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, held talks in Rome this morning with the President of the Italian-Libyan Chamber of Commerce, Nicola Colicchi, on the sidelines of the premier’s visit to Italy.
Italian oil company Eni signed a memorandum of understanding on Wedesnday with Libya with the aim of “studying and identifying opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and develop sustainable energy in the country, in line with Eni’s strategy and with the Libyan government’s objectives to accelerate decarbonisation and energy transition processes,” according to a press release by Eni.
Italy’s center-right government is again grabbing international headlines by virtue of enforcing its immigration laws.
According to our sources, the upcoming visit of Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh to Italy is aimed at pleasing…
Nearly 500 migrants who tried to cross the central Mediterranean have been brought back to Libya, according to a UN spokesman, two days after charity groups lost contact with the boat carrying them, Reuters reported.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh will visit Rome in June, announced the premier himself yesterday.
“We live in a complicated moment, in which negative circumstances risk causing the migration issue to explode,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, warned on Thursday.