The French website Mediapart has today published an article entitled 'Europe's secret plan to securitise Libya', which says that: "The European Union is investing hundreds of millions of euros in reinforcing Libya's borders, fearing that instability in the country will inflame the region and encourage migration to Europe."
They are investing hundreds of millions of euros to try to stop disturbances extending to the entire region, which is already unstable. To prevent migrants arriving on European shores, they are trying to block them upstream."
The article is behind a paywall, but Mediapart have made freely available a restricted 239-page EU document outlining the 'Revised Draft Concept of Operations "Plus" (CONOPS PLUS) for the CSDP [Common Security and Defence Policy] Mission EUBAM [EU Border Assistance Mission] Libya' (pdf).
