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Fortress Europe from Libyan drama

While sub-Saharan immigrant workers, many in the Libyan Colonel Gaddafi, are, like all foreigners, among the leading targets of bloody crackdown in progress, Europe seems at first regarded as a burden, as potential invaders ready to surge in mass on its shores.

While it is not surprising that Africans, who by the thousands, were attracted by the Libyan Eldorado, fleeing a country plagued by extreme violence. A country where, already greeted with hostility in ordinary times, they may now be treated, because of the color of their skin, mercenaries recruited by the Libyan leader on the continent and are obviously hated by the people in rebellion.

While Italy has reason to be alarmed about a possible influx of migrants on the island of Lampedusa - who faces Libya and Tunisia. Rome has even more reason to worry that the solidarity of the European Union is far from it being acquired.

absence of a real common policy on immigration and asylum, the burden of hosting migrants continue to return to countries geographically exposed. The countries of the north and east of the EU and have no desire to amend the Dublin Convention, which is the country of first contacting the sole jurisdiction to review asylum applications.

But threats of

"invasion"

wielded by Italy barely hide an unjustifiable xenophobic message sent by the Berlusconi government to its constituents. They also reflect the confusion of Italian leaders face the possible fall of a regime - that of Moammar Gadhafi - whom they got their first ally in the fight against illegal immigration. The Guide had not he proposed to protect Europe against

"barbarian invasions"

on payment of 5 billion euros per year?

should not be that Europe, as its history is the guardian of asylum, forget this legacy, while burning a country situated on its doorstep. It would be equally ironic that the fears of Europe make him regret the fall of totalitarian regimes like those of Ben Ali and Gaddafi, on the pretext that the government might succeed them may be less cooperative to repress immigrants.

The final paradox of the situation but not least: while democracy and development in the South are, rightly, often presented as the best means to prevent emigration, experience shows that this effect is obtained in the long term.

Initially, the burst of freedom gives wings to the men and women long hindered. For people seeking sovereignty, emigration is the corollary of freedom.

Article published in the edition of 27.02.11