After war broke out again in Libya early last year, a special team of EU diploma...
CAIRO/BRUSSELS - - After war broke out again in Libya early last year, a special team of EU diplomats in Tripoli was forced back to neighboring Tunisia to do what they had been doing for several years: wait.
“We Europeans, since we don’t want to participate in a military solution, we barricade ourselves in the belief there is no military solution,” the EU’s new foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told the European Parliament this week. Former colonial power Italy has supported the Tripoli-based, U.N-backed government of Fayez al-Serraj, while France favored Khalifa Haftar, commander of the eastern Libyan National Army.
Shock over the fallout from U.S. drone strike on an Iranian general on Jan. 3 has galvanized Europeans over Libya, some EU envoys say, settling on a new “European approach”. The EU’s new leadership in Brussels also wants to be more “geopolitical” and stem the waning of Europe’s influence. It launched into a frenzy of diplomacy in early January amid fears of a Middle East conflagration after the U.S. drone strike in Iran.
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