Bulgarian medics freed, but at what price?

Pascal Aubert notes a sense of "uneasiness" concerning the way this crisis has been resolved. The simultaneity of the happy ending of the Bulgarian nurses' long captivity and the announcement of an agreement on economic cooperation between Libya and the European Union is not far from indecent and cynical. It inevitably raises suspicions. Are these two events linked by cause and effect? ... Were European diplomacy and the French presidency, which intervened at the last minute, obliged to 'buy' the freedom of Kadhafi's prisoners? Tripoli has clearly insinuated as much. ... In the name of the 'pragmatism' that the French head of State has said he wants to apply henceforth to international problems, it may not be such a bad idea to allow for a latency period in relations with Libya, if only to give President Kadhafi time to think about the consequences of his acts."

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