An editorial by Annika Ström Melin in Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) summarised by Presseurop:
“‘An unfortunate voyage to Libya’ headlines the Dagens Nyheter editorial, which looks back on European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström’s visit to Libya in October 2010. [***] In practice [the agreement signed by the Commissioner in Libya] amounted to employing Gaddafi as an EU border guard, notes the Stockholm daily [***]. ‘It is easy to be clever with the benefit of hindsight,’ remarks the daily, ‘but the agreement with Gaddafi was already scandalous when it was signed. Today Cecilia Malmström will have to provide full information about the consequences of this meeting. Was there a dialogue? Where did the money go?’ In conclusion, Dagens Nyheter affirms that the entire EU should ask itself the question of how it came to sign a treaty with Gaddafi.”
Click here for Presseurop article.
Click here for Dagens Nyheter editorial. (SV)
Click here and here for my previous posts on the Commissioner’s trip to Libya.
[UPDATE 25 August – Click here for Malmström’s response to the editorial.]
MIGRANTS AT SEA 