The risks of Franco-Libyan cooperation

"Development will beat the Kadhafi regime", considers Alain Lallemand, who thinks that the new economic relations engaged in with Tripoli are a riposte for the Libyan head of state's regime. "At the very least, we expect Libya to participate in maintaining common interests (Immigration, indeed, but also cocaine traffic between Tripoli and Zaventem) just as good neighbours agree to trim their hedge. But the Union cannot leave it at that ... Today's riposte is our strongest weapon, a sort of deep penetrating cluster bomb , the letting loose of the hounds of liberalism, enforcing generalized comfort, notably medical, that is currently reserved for the privileged cast of the 'Guide'. In the long run this will amount to turning the Libyan people against their dictator, basically doing away with his 'Jamahiriya', dissolving it at last in a globalized European policy."

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