The end of the civil war in Libya should in theory reduce immigration into Europe so there is no need for “greater mobility and migration,” Andrew Brons MEP told the EU’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee yesterday.
Speaking during a debate held on the “Review of Neighbourhood Policy” which deals with the relationship between EU nations and countries on its borders, Mr Brons said the committed had been told “that developments in North Africa should lead to greater mobility, greater migration.
“Surely the reverse should be the case,” Mr Brons said. “As the political systems become more congenial and less repressive, it should be less necessary for their populations to flee to Europe.”
Referring directly to Libya, Mr Brons said the “only people who should find the atmosphere less pleasant than it was previously would be the family and friends of Colonel Gaddafi. Perhaps the Colonel will go to the head of the queue of asylum seekers.”
He also pointed out that the justification of the war was to make “Libya a better place to live in and not a better place to leave. Many thousands of lives have been lost in Libya.
“Perhaps this is an admission that whenever the West involves itself in countries that are not its business, it leaves those countries with more and greater problems; more repression and not less,” Mr Brons said.
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