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The EU and the Mediterranean: good neighbours?
Open Europe 19 May 2011
By Vincenzo Scarpetta & Pawel Swidlicki
Executive summary:
• The home-grown revolutions across North Africa and the Middle East have provided great cause for ptimism. But they have also raised questions about the EU’s record in promoting reform and stability in these areas – and, more importantly, about how Europe can best support this region in future. 
Camp of the Saints: The Numbers Game Redux
Gates of Vienna 19 May 2011
Before getting down to the detailed articles about the Mediterranean refugee crisis, here’s a general statement of principle from the President of the
Why Obama's Mideast Speech is For Domestic, Not Arab Consumption
globalspin.blogs.time.com 19 May 2011
By Tony Karon
The question among Middle East watchers over Thursday's planned speech on the Arab Spring by President Obama has been this: Why would he address the Arab world
Swiss reject UN request to take more refugees
Expatica 13 May 2011
Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga has rejected a request by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) to take in refugees trapped on the Libyan-Tunisian border. At a meeting in Brussels
Camp of the Saints: Death on the High Seas
Gates of Vienna 11 May 2011
Refugees continue to land on the coast of Italy, mostly at the port on the tiny island of Lampedusa. On Sunday, however, a relatively small group of culture-enrichers landed in Sicily. Based on their South Asian ethnicity, their port of origin was presumably not on the North African coast:
Hotel rape claim woman escapes to Tunisia
Independent 9 May 2011
By Jerome Taylor
Eman al-Obeidy, the Libyan woman who was bundled out of a hotel in Tripoli and arrested when she tried to inform western journalists that she had been raped by members of the Gaddafi regime, has
Camp of the Saints: The Shape of Things to Come
Gates of Vienna 5 May 2011
A reminder that that the "Camp of the Saints” crisis is still in its early stages comes from the European Commission, which estimates that well over half a million refugees have fled Libya since the uprisings began in January:
EU Claims 650,000 People Have Left Libya
(AGI) Brussels — According to the EU’s latest estimates, 650,000 people have left Libya to escape war and bloodshed. The figure was released in the context of the Commission’s report on the EU’s immigration policy. All fugitives have sought refuge in neighboring countries, mainly Tunisia and Egypt, and many have already been helped so as to enable them to return home.
Video: Camp of the Saints: Letting Diplomacy Work
Gates of Vienna 29 April 2011
Italy received a week’s respite — or, as AGI puts it, a "truce” — from the landing of North African refugees on the shores of Lampedusa. The "Camp of the Saints” scenario took a brief breather, but
French police arrest Tunisian migrants: officials
Expatica 29 April 2011
French police arrested 60 mostly Tunisian immigrants in Paris, officials said Wednesday, accusing them of entering the country illegally, as France pushes to tighten the EU's
Vin's Notes on Islamism: Part Nine
Family Security Matters 27 April 2011
By Vin Ienco
On the 12th Of February this year, after 18 days of revolution, President Hosni Sayyid Mubaraks rule of 29 years was over. After some reservations, he decided to listen to the swelling
Euromed: EU Commission aims to simplify visas for neighbours
ANSAmed 26 April 2011
''The European Commission proposed to set up a partnership for the mobility of entrepreneurs and students with the neighbouring countries of the Mediterranean, similarly to what was
Pind says European commissioner is "an idiot”
The Copenhagen Post 26 April 2011
To hear immigration minister Soren Pind tell it, the European Council’s commissioner for human rights Thomas Hammarberg is an idiot” whose opinions are not worthy of Pind’s time.
Elections: EU, BBC training to Egypt and Tunisia journalists
ANSAmed 26 April 2011
BRUSSELS, APRIL X - Twenty-four egyptian and tunisian journalists will attend a special training programme on the electoral process in the United Kingdom's Welsh National Assembly elections and
Camp of the Saints: Relocation
Gates of Vienna 21 April 2011
The island of Lampedusa, where most of the North African refugees arrive, is too small to hold more than a few thousand without grave overcrowding. The Italian government periodically empties the
Italy: 1,000 migrants evacuated from Lampedusa
Adnkronos International English 21 April 2011
One thousand migrants from North Africa set sail from Lampedusa island on Wednesday, headed for detention centres on nearby Sicily and the Italian mainland. Most of the migrants are asylum-seekers
France blocks train from Italy with migrants
The Canadian Press 19 April 2011
A train carrying Tunisian immigrants from Italy was halted at the French border Sunday in an escalation of an international dispute over the fate of North African migrants fleeing political unrest
France says open to talks with democratic Islamists
Expatica 19 April 2011
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Saturday that talks should be held with Islamist movements in the Arab world if they embraced democracy and renounced violence. A diplomatic source said
Video: Uprising by African Youth on Lampedusa
pi-news 19 April 2011
On the Italian island of Lampsedusa, the gateway for North African revolutionary refugees and fortune seekers, there was an uprising by Arab "youth.” They demolished the "House of Fraternity” that Caritas had made available to them. (...)
Al-Qaida leader calls on Muslim nations to fight Western coalition in Libya
Ha'aretz 15 April 2011
Al-Qaida's deputy leader called on Muslim nations to fight the United States and NATO if their forces enter the country in a video released on Thursday. The video was recorded before international
Al-Qaeda number two broaches Libya in new video
Focus News 15 April 2011
Washington. Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri incites Muslims to rise up against both NATO and Moamer Kadhafi's forces in a newly released video apparently taped before the Western intervention
