Il "Buffone del Maghreb" ed il "Buffone d'Europa" uniti da solidi soldi e da labili principi etici

In Italia la pagliacciata romana è già finita nel dimenticatoio, mentre Frattini si ostina a parlarne come di una cosa seria. Preciso, a scanso di querele, che la definizione di "Buffone d'Europa" non è mia, ma appartiene ad una copertina dell'Express - celebre settimanale francese. Intanto, mentre la stampa italiana ha già steso un velo pietoso, per sapere cosa succede dobbiamo andare sulla stampa estera. Per esempio The Guardian... Tafanus

EU keen to strike deal with Muammar Gaddafi on immigration - Commission chiefs to hold talks with Libya over Gaddafi's demand for €5bn a year to stop Europe turning 'black'

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi and Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi at a conference in Italy this week, where Gaddafi said the bill for sealing the crossing routes for illegal immigrants from Libya to Europe would be €5bn a year. Photograph: Olycom SPA / Rex Features

[...] In a highly theatrical visit to Italy this week, Gaddafi warned that Europe would turn "black" unless it was more rigorous in turning back immigrants. Libya is a key transit point for illegal migration from Africa to Europe. The Libyan leader said the bill for sealing the crossing routes would be at least €5bn a year.

While the commission in Brussels said that much could be achieved with Libya "for lesser amounts than that named by Colonel Gaddafi", Franco Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, supported the Libyan leader. He said European government chiefs would discuss the proposed migration pact at the Tripoli summit. Frattini went to Libya today to chair a meeting of Mediterranean-rim countries, five from the EU and five in the Maghreb [...]

[...] In Rome Gaddafi advised Europeans to convert to Islam and sought to bolster his claim for billions from Europe by warning that millions of Africans were seeking to migrate to the EU. "We don't know what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans," the Libyan leader told a Rome meeting attended by Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister. "We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced and united continent or if it will be destroyed, as happened with the barbarian invasions."

Relations between Berlusconi and Gaddafi are strong, based on booming business ties and repression of immigrants. Under a much-criticised deal struck two years ago, Italian border patrols in the Mediterranean are turning back thousands of migrants at sea. They are returned to Libya without being screened for legitimate political asylum cases [...]

[The Guardian]