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EU leaders look to work in Libya on migration Boris Johnson

By FRANCES D’EMILIO lends support
Associated Press to Australia-UK
ROME (AP) — Sending free trade deal
Italian naval units to help
Libya’s coast guard could
prove to be a “turning By KRISTEN GELINEAU
point” in efforts to stop traf- Associated Press
fickers from sending hun- SYDNEY (AP) — British For-
dreds of thousands of mi- eign Secretary Boris John-
grants toward Italy’s south- son said on Thursday that
ern shores, Premier Paolo he supports a proposed
Gentiloni said Thursday. free trade agreement be-
With the foundering of a tween the United Kingdom
European Union plan to re- and Australia, as his country
distribute thousands of mi- looks to strengthen its rela-
grants rescued at sea and tionships with allies ahead
brought to Italy, Gentiloni of its departure from the
said his center-left govern- European Union.
ment would brief law- Johnson and his Austra-
makers next week about lian counterpart, Foreign
Libya’s request for Italian Minister Julie Bishop, an-
navy vessels to patrol its nounced the two nations
Mediterranean shores. would boost trade, intelli-
Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Italian Police check people during a blitz outside Milan’s main train station, Italy, Wednesday, gence-sharing and military
Serraj, who leads a U.N.- July 26, 2017. Authorities have detained several dozen people in response to an increasing public ties following an annual
backed unity govern- security issue as the city deals with a new wave of migrants. meeting in Sydney that in-
ment based in Tripoli, met (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) cluded the defense minis-
in Rome with the Italian ters of both countries.
leader on Wednesday and aimed at improving Lib- Italy has acknowledged However, organizations “As we go through the
asked for the assistance. ya’s own patrols. Traffick- the problem of might hap- that work with refugees process of leaving the ar-
Gentiloni said his govern- ers, exploiting widespread pen to migrants who are have expressed doubts rangements of the Euro-
ment was working out the lawlessness in the violence- prevented from reaching that Libya’s deteriorated pean Union, we are going
details of a proposed na- wracked, fractured north Italy and returned to Libya. security situation would al- to widen our horizons and
val mission. “The request African nation, have sent Rescued migrants have low them to properly carry work even more closely,”
that came to us from the hundreds of thousands of told Italian authorities and out such a humanitarian Johnson told reporters. “We
Tripoli government for col- migrants in unseaworthy humanitarian organizations mission. Analysts have said have today reaffirmed our
laboration and assistance smuggling boats toward about torture, rape, forced that some of the very mili- shared goal of concluding
for the Libyan coast guard Italy over the last few years. labor, beatings and other tias that support Serraj and a free trade agreement as
can be a turning point in Military ships from Europe- atrocities they suffered in help him hold on to power soon as possible after we
handling the situation,” an nations, vessels orga- Libyan camps while await- in western Libya also profit leave the EU.”
Gentiloni said. “The fact nized by aid organizations ing their turn to be smug- from trafficking, complicat- Johnson, who had ad-
that the Libyan authorities and commercial cargo gled out by sea. The Ital- ing chances for the success vocated for Britain’s EU
ask Italy to collaborate, frequently pick up men, ian government’s strategy of anti-trafficking patrols. departure, said any deal
and not to substitute, (in women and children mak- foresees international or- Meanwhile, long stretches would include an “open
the role of) fighting traffick- ing the perilous Mediterra- ganizations on the ground of Libya’s coastline are not and generous” visa regime
ers is important.” nean Sea crossing. Lately, helping to guarantee the under the control of Ser- for Australians looking to
The premier noted that most of those rescued at proper treatment of those raj’s supporters. Lawmakers travel to the U.K.
Italy already has furnished sea have been economic forced to return to Libya from Italy’s far-left parties “What we will be able to
Libya’s coast guard with migrants from African na- and their eventual repa- might balk at approving a do once we take back
speedboats and training tions unlikely to win asylum. triation to their homelands. naval mission to Libya.q control of our immigration
arrangements is to have a
Polish: government will target media after courts system that is fair,” he said.
“We want to welcome tal-
ented Australians.”
By VANESSA GERA movement’s plans to de- taking control of public to name the heads of all The ministers were short on
Associated Press centralize the media. He media and the constitu- lower courts, in what critics specifics over what impact
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — didn’t give details, but his tional court and purging see as a blow to the coun- a trade deal would have,
The leader of Poland’s rul- party leaders have previ- civil servants and military try’s system of checks and though Johnson did have
ing party said Thursday that ously announced plans to leaders to replace them balances. an answer for a British jour-
the government intends to limit foreign ownership of with loyalists. The planned judiciary nalist who asked whether
“decentralize” the media private media companies Kaczynski vowed to quickly changes sparked large na- it would result in cheaper
after it completes a “radi- in Poland. complete the overhaul of tionwide protests for more Australian wine for Britons.
cal” overhaul of the judicial Many Polish newspapers the court system despite than a week. “Never mind Australian
system that the European have German or Swiss own- President Andrzej Duda’s Kaczynski spoke in two wine, which is, of course,
Union has denounced as vi- ers, while an American rejection this week of two broadcast interviews, first delicious,” Johnson said.
olating democratic norms. company owns a major bills giving the ruling party on TV Trwam and then on “There are tariffs on Scotch
Law and Justice party lead- private television broad- more power over the Su- Radio Maryja. Both are whisky in this country which
er Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the caster, TVN. preme Court and other Roman Catholic outlets seem to me to amount
most powerful politician in The party has consolidated aspects of the judicial sys- friendly to his party. to a cruel deprivation of
Poland, said he expects power since 2015 in a way tem. Duda did, however, Kaczynski said Poland’s uni- the Australian people of
“very strong resistance” to that has alarmed human sign into law a bill giving versities also need “deep Scotch whisky at the price
his conservative nationalist rights officials and the EU, the justice minister power change.”q they could have it.q