The powder keg Libya: we risk losing Tripoli too. And migrant trafficking has become an industry
Of Alberto Negri
Source: Alberto Negri
Italy also risks losing Tripoli? Fayez Sarraj's government, supported by the Islamist brigades but under constant attack from the other militias _ despite yet another fragile truce _ appears increasingly weak, General Khalifa Haftar in Cyrenaica is increasingly threatening towards Italy, Macron's France increasingly determined to pursue its agenda to call elections by the end of the year.
But what is Italian policy in Libya? No one is really able to answer despite Salvini and Moavero's visits to Tripoli. Indeed, Italy seems almost isolated, despite the Tripoli government being the one recognized by the international community as opposed to Haftar's power, backed by France, Egypt, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. In reality, American support for the Italian positions also appears very evanescent: the impression is that Trump told Prime Minister Conte the same nonsense about Libya that Obama told Renzi, that of our pre-eminent role in Libyan affairs which in practice the other powers do not recognize in us except in words. Even the publicized conference on Libya in Rome, to be held in October, it appears incongruent if the French and Haftar position prevailed in order to hold new elections, even just presidential ones (without legislative and constitutional reform). Read More
