The European Union will continue in the coming days the wisdom of possible actions in Libya without a clear political support from Arab countries, according to diplomatic sources reported. EU Foreign Ministers on Libya, which will prepare the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government on Friday which will discuss the wave of protests and riots in countries from North Africa and Middle East.
The EU supports the Libyan revolt has turned into a civil war can be long. "No one expects the Qaddafi regime to crumble in a few days," acknowledged today about a diplomatic source. Another issue to be discussed will be the meetings to keep the envoys of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Cairo and Lisbon, where he traveled after consulting the Portuguese authorities in the EU high representative, Catherine Ashton, said a European source.
In time, Brussels wants to discuss options for action that are acceptable internationally, and include complete evacuation of European citizens, to help other people and sending humanitarian aid to civilians. In the Union itself acknowledges that the ideas of an air exclusion zone over the sky to prevent Gadhafi Libyan warplanes use in combat, or a naval blockade to prevent the arrival of arms and mercenaries need international consensus on However, Arabic.
Europeans and Westerners in general, want to avoid a possible military involvement can be wielded by Islamic radicals as a new aggression of the "crusaders" against an Arab country, as they did with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Many Arab countries believe that it is possible an operation (military) without political support from Arab League countries," he said another leading European source.
The key, in addition to the Arab League and African Union in the Security Council United Nations, where there is no indication right now that can achieve the unanimity required for such action. However, this latter source said that "if the fighting are still as strong" as in the last days "will increase pressure on the international community to act." At a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France) on Wednesday, Ashton expressed cautious about an offensive against Gaddafi's air defenses and has chosen to leave "the Libyans to make their own revolution." Ashton also noted a reluctance on the recognition of the National Transitional Council of the Libyan people as a partner.
"We recognize states, not governments," he said today about the EU source in Brussels. Also today, shortly before the ministerial meeting is expected to conclude a written procedure launched by the EU to extend economic sanctions on Libya to European financial institutions of the regime of Gaddafi.
The process concludes on the morning of Thursday, and between-sanctioned institutions speak of a five-will be the Central Bank and the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA, in English), a sovereign fund with stakes in major international companies whose assets have been blocked in the U.S. to be considered which is controlled by Gaddafi and his family.
The ministers and leaders will discuss the ideas that the European Commission approved on Tuesday to promote the processes of democratic transformation in North Africa and Middle East. That document committed to rethinking European policies towards these countries to support the transition to democracy after decades of relations with deposed regimes such as Egypt and Tunisia, or in serious trouble as Libya.
Among the benefits that Europe would be willing to grant given financial support, commercial facilities and a more favorable regime for the movement of people, including facilitation of visas and legal immigration. 
The EU supports the Libyan revolt has turned into a civil war can be long. "No one expects the Qaddafi regime to crumble in a few days," acknowledged today about a diplomatic source. Another issue to be discussed will be the meetings to keep the envoys of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Cairo and Lisbon, where he traveled after consulting the Portuguese authorities in the EU high representative, Catherine Ashton, said a European source.
In time, Brussels wants to discuss options for action that are acceptable internationally, and include complete evacuation of European citizens, to help other people and sending humanitarian aid to civilians. In the Union itself acknowledges that the ideas of an air exclusion zone over the sky to prevent Gadhafi Libyan warplanes use in combat, or a naval blockade to prevent the arrival of arms and mercenaries need international consensus on However, Arabic.
Europeans and Westerners in general, want to avoid a possible military involvement can be wielded by Islamic radicals as a new aggression of the "crusaders" against an Arab country, as they did with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Many Arab countries believe that it is possible an operation (military) without political support from Arab League countries," he said another leading European source.
The key, in addition to the Arab League and African Union in the Security Council United Nations, where there is no indication right now that can achieve the unanimity required for such action. However, this latter source said that "if the fighting are still as strong" as in the last days "will increase pressure on the international community to act." At a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France) on Wednesday, Ashton expressed cautious about an offensive against Gaddafi's air defenses and has chosen to leave "the Libyans to make their own revolution." Ashton also noted a reluctance on the recognition of the National Transitional Council of the Libyan people as a partner.
"We recognize states, not governments," he said today about the EU source in Brussels. Also today, shortly before the ministerial meeting is expected to conclude a written procedure launched by the EU to extend economic sanctions on Libya to European financial institutions of the regime of Gaddafi.
The process concludes on the morning of Thursday, and between-sanctioned institutions speak of a five-will be the Central Bank and the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA, in English), a sovereign fund with stakes in major international companies whose assets have been blocked in the U.S. to be considered which is controlled by Gaddafi and his family.
The ministers and leaders will discuss the ideas that the European Commission approved on Tuesday to promote the processes of democratic transformation in North Africa and Middle East. That document committed to rethinking European policies towards these countries to support the transition to democracy after decades of relations with deposed regimes such as Egypt and Tunisia, or in serious trouble as Libya.
Among the benefits that Europe would be willing to grant given financial support, commercial facilities and a more favorable regime for the movement of people, including facilitation of visas and legal immigration.
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