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In the crisis in Libya, Italy has a rival, the France, and an ally, the United States. But there is another actor, fundamental and until now on the sidelines, which can be decisive in resolving the conflict: the Russia.
Another base for the Mediterranean
Although the world's attention on Russian operations is naturally focused on Syria, Libya represents a fundamental point in the Kremlin's Mediterranean agenda. For Moscow, il Mediterranean represents the natural outlet towards the Atlantic. Controlling or in any case guaranteeing the presence in the Mediterranean therefore translates into the ability to emerge from the shell of the Black Sea and obtain positions in the intermediate sea between Russian ports and the ocean.
The Mediterranean is needed. And therefore Libya is needed, given that the conflict that has been shaking the North African country for years mainly concerns the coasts, where there are ports, arsenal, possible military bases e, inevitably, the terminals of gas and oil fields.
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While the Meseberg summit between France and Germany gave birth to downward compromises and about-faces, Hungary has included a ban on helping migrants in its Constitution. If this was the window of opportunity to save the Union, it is already double locked

The plastic representation of the endless crisis of Europeanism is given to us by two events of the last two days. In the right corner, Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister, which inserts into the Constitution the ban on welcoming migrants and a one-year prison sentence for anyone who helps them, in what the media defined as the anti-Soros law. In the left corner, in what should be the cultural opposition to Orban, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, than from Meseberg Castle of their bilateral summit on the major reform of the eurozone, they come out with a joint declaration on the repatriations of asylum seekers to the countries of first landing, i.e. Italy and Greece.
If it were a Puzzle Week game we would say "spot the differences".If it was supposed to be an answer to Budapest, the Franco-German move is the perfect assist for Matteo Salvini to replicate the policies of his Hungarian master. And indeed, as per the script, he has already threatened – pardon: threatened by Prime Minister Conte -di desert Sunday's summit with France, Germany and Spain and to close the Italian borders, if France and Germany try to impose what they promised.

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