Italy’s foreign minister has called for a relaxing of EU sanctions on Russia and warned that the crisis in Libya poses an equal threat to European security as the Ukrainian conflict.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Paolo Gentiloni said that Europe’s focus should be on its southern borders “from Mali to Pakistan” and that the EU was distracted by Russian intervention in Ukraine due to historical Cold War narratives.
Libya has been in chaos since the deposition of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The internationally-recognised government in Tobruk is currently fighting with the self-declared Islamist government of the General National Congress, based …read more
Source: Newsweek
