The acting director of the Directorate General for the Southern Neighbourhood at the European Commission’s DG NEAR, Henrike Trautmann, said on Wednesday 2 February that it was essential to support Libya on migration issues.
“The coastguard rescued 31,000 migrants in 2021, which is still not enough when you see the current flows”, she told the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, noting that there had been more than 68,000 arrivals in Europe via the central...