The Italian newspaper La Repubblica said that European leaders have finally realized that what is happening in Libya now is not a civil war between Libyan factions, but rather a game that will affect their countries and peoples.

And La Repubblica pointed out that the conversation no longer focuses on the flow of immigrants or stops the flow of oil from Libya, but rather about an all-out war that could set fire to the borders of southern Europe.

The newspaper revealed that the European leaders had discussed the issue of the insistence of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar, who is backed by Russian mercenaries who contracted with Wagner, to continue the attack that he began on April 4 to control the capital, Tripoli.

And I warned that this attack could lead to the failure of the Berlin conference, which Germany seeks to hold in the first half of January next, with the aim of reaching, above all, a ceasefire in Libya.


La Repubblica talked about the visit that Italian Foreign Minister Luigi de Mayo plans to take tomorrow, Tuesday, to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, where he will meet with the President of the National Accord Government, Faiz al-Sarraj, and Ahmed Moutaiq, Vice-President of the Presidential Council.


The newspaper linked the assignment of the Italian diplomat de Mayo to this visit and the tripartite summit meeting that took place in Brussels on Friday, in which Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, French President Macron and German Chancellor Merkel participated.

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Italy is in trouble
La Repubblica highlighted the reaction of the Libyan National Accord government to Haftar’s announcement of his new escalation by signing Al-Sarraj’s agreement with Turkey, in which the two countries drew their maritime borders and exclusive economic zones, which was rejected by the Italian government and many other European governments on the pretext that that agreement was at the expense and interests of coastal countries European and other regional overlooking the eastern basin of the Mediterranean.

The newspaper pointed out that the meetings planned by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs de Mayo in Tripoli will not be easy at all, especially since Tripoli has been seeking help from Rome for months, and if it was not with arms assistance, at least with more political support for a government recognized by the United Nations.

La Repubblica said that the Italian Prime Minister had clearly defined his position when he announced that Rome was standing at the same distance from Tripoli and Haftar, that is, between a government recognized by the international community and the head of a militia who ordered the attack on the capital Tripoli while he was negotiating with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Libya.

The newspaper noted that de Mayo, planted his feet in solving the problems of governance in Italy, did not act proactively to contribute to solving the Libyan crisis, as his only short mission was in North Africa in Morocco.

In this context, a senior official at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained to the newspaper that Italy is finding itself in trouble now, because Tripoli is now ignoring it, just as it does with other European countries.


The newspaper concluded that at the moment when Al-Sarraj seemed close to drowning with his government, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent him arms and drones to resist the Haftar aggression, winning the sympathy of the leadership in Tripoli, which had been described at its founding as "the government of the Italians."