This Europe is not up to the ongoing revolution in North Africa and the Middle East. Silence and inaction which were received with demonstrations that toppled the dictatorship of Ben Ali and Mubarak is in addition to this the lukewarm reaction to the massacre perpetrated by the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
When a tyrant is launching its tanks and its air force against citizens who demand his departure and that there are already dead by the hundreds, it is simply disgraceful to call for restraint in the use of force. The crimes these days are not the first guilty that Qaddafi, but those he has perpetrated the most shameless.
Faced with these abuses, Europe has been more concerned to know how to keep the Libyans within their borders that support citizens who took the floor and risking their lives to fight an ancient tyranny. In light of this demonstration of barbarism, the caution statement from the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Ashton, and the Council of Foreign Ministers of Twenty-Seven meeting last Monday are perfectly adequate.
Let there be no mistake: if two countries as Italy and the Czech Republic could dilute the common position [by refusing to condemn Libya] is, among other reasons, because other members of Twenty-Seven n have found nothing wrong with the end result, they deemed it acceptable. Now it is at any point of view, not even in the light of pragmatism timorous, and that is why the victory of two member states over others is in fact a humiliating defeat for all.
While the High Representative and the Council of Ministers played this sad role, the Commission had finished casting doubts on Europe by the mouth of Michele Cercone, spokesman for the Commissioner for Internal Affairs [Malmström]. It has expressed extreme concern of the European Union over the impact of revolts in North Africa and the Middle East in terms of migration.
If this is really the concern of the EU at a time like this means that by dint of navel gazing the Brussels bureaucracy is no longer able to prioritize the problems, placing them on the same plane the political earthquake that shook one of the most tormented of the world and an obsession that was the first European populist forces and, subsequently, the democratic parties will do anything to win votes.
But it also means that the Europe of the early twenty-first century, harassed by ghosts, has declined to make the distinction between an immigrant and a refugee. Faced with a mass murder like the one that is perpetrating Gaddafi, Europe is guilty of an unpardonable meanness pondering the best way to lock the Libyans inside their borders, thank you for leaving a ferocious repression.
It should instead ask how to help bring down a regime grotesque and save lives. There are countless historical errors that may have been committed by the major powers in the Maghreb and the Middle East on behalf of the dogma that the dictatorship was a lesser evil than the menace of Islamist fanaticism.
In reality, there are two enemies who feed one another and from one end to another of the Arab world took millions of people in a stranglehold that deprived them of freedom and any hope of progress. Now that these people spoke at the risk of their lives, the great powers can not add a new error of planetary dimensions.
At least, Europe can not and should not do that because it would devote a final betrayal of principles on which it wanted to build his Union. Citizens who rose up against their dictators demand freedom and dignity must be told clearly from abroad, the developed world and democratic, that their claim is legitimate.
And the EU can decide to whisper or make a banner of their petty fears. 
When a tyrant is launching its tanks and its air force against citizens who demand his departure and that there are already dead by the hundreds, it is simply disgraceful to call for restraint in the use of force. The crimes these days are not the first guilty that Qaddafi, but those he has perpetrated the most shameless.
Faced with these abuses, Europe has been more concerned to know how to keep the Libyans within their borders that support citizens who took the floor and risking their lives to fight an ancient tyranny. In light of this demonstration of barbarism, the caution statement from the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Ashton, and the Council of Foreign Ministers of Twenty-Seven meeting last Monday are perfectly adequate.
Let there be no mistake: if two countries as Italy and the Czech Republic could dilute the common position [by refusing to condemn Libya] is, among other reasons, because other members of Twenty-Seven n have found nothing wrong with the end result, they deemed it acceptable. Now it is at any point of view, not even in the light of pragmatism timorous, and that is why the victory of two member states over others is in fact a humiliating defeat for all.
While the High Representative and the Council of Ministers played this sad role, the Commission had finished casting doubts on Europe by the mouth of Michele Cercone, spokesman for the Commissioner for Internal Affairs [Malmström]. It has expressed extreme concern of the European Union over the impact of revolts in North Africa and the Middle East in terms of migration.
If this is really the concern of the EU at a time like this means that by dint of navel gazing the Brussels bureaucracy is no longer able to prioritize the problems, placing them on the same plane the political earthquake that shook one of the most tormented of the world and an obsession that was the first European populist forces and, subsequently, the democratic parties will do anything to win votes.
But it also means that the Europe of the early twenty-first century, harassed by ghosts, has declined to make the distinction between an immigrant and a refugee. Faced with a mass murder like the one that is perpetrating Gaddafi, Europe is guilty of an unpardonable meanness pondering the best way to lock the Libyans inside their borders, thank you for leaving a ferocious repression.
It should instead ask how to help bring down a regime grotesque and save lives. There are countless historical errors that may have been committed by the major powers in the Maghreb and the Middle East on behalf of the dogma that the dictatorship was a lesser evil than the menace of Islamist fanaticism.
In reality, there are two enemies who feed one another and from one end to another of the Arab world took millions of people in a stranglehold that deprived them of freedom and any hope of progress. Now that these people spoke at the risk of their lives, the great powers can not add a new error of planetary dimensions.
At least, Europe can not and should not do that because it would devote a final betrayal of principles on which it wanted to build his Union. Citizens who rose up against their dictators demand freedom and dignity must be told clearly from abroad, the developed world and democratic, that their claim is legitimate.
And the EU can decide to whisper or make a banner of their petty fears.
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