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As EU Pours Money Into Libya to Tackle Migration, is Bloc Ignoring Human Rights Abuses?

20 December 2021

Sputnik, 20 December 2021.

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"The European Union is pouring hundreds of millions of euros into Libya in an attempt to stem the flow of migrants heading across the Mediterranean to Italy and Malta.

Yasha Maccanico, a researcher at Statewatch, said the EU “was over-ambitious” in trying to stop irregular migration by economic migrants altogether."

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