From the EU Observer: “Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi is friends with Gaddafi… Italy also has major oil, gas and arms interests in Libya and it fears a ‘biblical exodus’ of hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants and refugees if Gaddafi snaps. The head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, on Wednesday made an implicit criticism of Italian policy. ‘This question of migration, or of illegal migration, or even of refugees, is sometimes used as a way of not supporting democracy and I do not agree with that,’ [Barroso] said after meeting a top UN human rights official in the EU capital.”
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MIGRANTS AT SEA 
Does some rich-world-thinker’s position on border enforcement somehow directly lead to participatory government in the north African states? That’s a novel theory to try to prove!