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EU ambassadors will today discuss a so-called “line of protection”, where Libyan authorities
– with “strong and lasting” EU support – will intercept people before they leave territorial waters
FT 19 January 2017
After dozens of summits, half-a-million arrivals in Italy and more than 10,000 dead or missing since 2014, the EU is no closer to finding a solution to the crisis in the central Mediterranean.
But they are still trying. EU ambassadors will today discuss a so-called “line of protection”, where Libyan authorities – with “strong and lasting” EU support
– will intercept people before they leave territorial waters, according to notes circulated before the meeting
När Khaddafi fick jobb som EU:s gränspolis
I början av oktober 2010 åkte EU-kommissionär Cecilia Malmström till Libyen
Annika Ström Melin, Signerat, DNs ledarsida 24 augusti 2011
There was certainly an abundance of goodwill behind the EU’s decision to launch its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in 2004.
Aiming to construct a “ring of friends” to its east (former communist countries) and south (across the Mediterranean), the EU took enthusiastically to the task of transforming its 16 ENP partners.
Charlemagne, The Economist print, 20 September 2014
In many cases, particularly in the south, its technocratic approach has simply been overwhelmed by domestic forces. But elsewhere it has been guilty of naivety. Take Ukraine. Last year the EU and Ukraine concluded an “association agreement”, an ENP instrument par excellence that included a free-trade deal and various political elements. But under pressure from Russia, which was alarmed by the prospect of Ukrainian integration into Western institutions, Viktor Yanukovych, then Ukraine’s president, declined to sign at the last minute, causing protests that led to his downfall. This was followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its invasion of the south-east.
The thousands of Ukrainians who occupied the Maidan in Kiev were not demonstrating for tariff reform and patent protection. They were asserting a European identity and rejecting the backward-looking, post-Soviet vision of Mr Yanukovych and the corruption that flourished on his watch. They understood that Europe had not banished geopolitics. So did Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, although his conclusion that Ukrainian sovereignty must be sacrificed to secure Moscow’s interests was altogether darker.
The irony was that the Russians took the ENP far more seriously than the Europeans ever did.
One of the first pledges of the incoming president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, was that there would be no expansion of the club in the next five years.
Som om förvirringen kring EU:s utrikespolitik inte redan vore nog bidrar nu unionens president till att dimmorna tätnar ytterligare.
Herman Van Rompuy har kallat till extra toppmöte i Bryssel. Unionens stats- och regeringschefer ska diskutera
det som på EU-språk kallas ”utvecklingen i det södra grannskapsområdet”,
vilket betyder Nordafrika och Libyen på vanlig svenska.
Annika Ström Melin, Signerat, DN-ledare 4/3 2011
För Sveriges del borde slutsatsen vara att ett väl fungerande svenskt utrikesdepartement behövs, också i EU.
Utrikespolitiken kan inte vara en enmansföreställning.
Joakim Nergelius anser att folkomröstningen om euron var ”ett fullkomligt gigantiskt fiasko för hela det svenska politiska och ekonomiska etablissemanget, utan motstycke i modern svensk historia”.
Särskilt upprörd är han /Nergelius/ över att Carl Bildt föreslog att frågan skulle avgöras i en folkomröstning,
utan att ta någon som helst hänsyn till de rättsliga förpliktelser som Sverige hade,
och utan att fundera över att resultatet av omröstningen skulle kunna bli ett nej.
Annika Ström Melin, SvD Kultur 6/2 2008
If Spain has no strategy, France has had something worse: a bad one.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has saddled Europe with a worse than useless outfit called the Union for the Mediterranean.
Its founding co-president, alongside Sarkozy himself, was none other than Hosni Mubarak.
This 43-country waffle shop has an array of cumbersome, dysfunctional committees and projects, wholly unfit for purpose.
Now that we do need a union for the Mediterranean, we should really start by abolishing the Union for the Mediterranean.
Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian, 17 February 2011
Union for the Mediterranean
Wikipedia
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED)
European External Action Service (EEAS)
Gatorna är klädda med såväl Frankrikes som Europeiska Unionens flagga.
Men det jag kommer att titta speciellt på är vårt Gripen-flygplan i parad över Paris.
Det är det ungerska flygvapnet som deltar med ett av sina Gripen-flygplan.
Jag kommer att applådera.
Carl Bildt 14/7 2008
Statsminister Fredrik Reinfeldt och utrikesminister Carl Bildt reser till Paris den 13- 14 juli för att delta i Medelhavsunionens toppmöte
http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/10778/a/108579
Början på sidan,med flera länkar
Carl Bildt som kronkursförsvarare
Will Sarkozy's Mediterranean union be more than a big photo-op?
Herald Tribune 14/7 2008
Sarkozy och romarriket
DN huvudledare 13/7 2008
"Very nice dear, but what's it for?"
Sarkozy's Club Med
Mark Mardell, BBC 11 Jul 2008
Many thought the plan itself was merely a cynical ploy to offer Turkey something less than full European Union membership and rather more than a vague associate partnership.
But alarm bells went off in Berlin and Brussels. The Med was to be seen as "our sea", the EU's sea, not just the private property of those on its shores.
Nicolas Sarkozy will perform a diplomatic feat on Sunday when he
gathers together 40 prime ministers and presidents to launch the Union for the Mediterranean,
his drive to revive economic and political co-operation between the northern and southern shores of mare nostrum.
Financial Times, July 10 2008
Mare Nostrum
(Latin for Our Sea) was a Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea.