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The European Union already backs Libyas government with 200 million worth of support to tackle people smugglers who provide the unseaworthy craft which carry thousands of migrants north into the waiting arms of European coastguards and volunteer rescue missions but now the country is requesting more.

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Libyas fragile, UN-backed unity government has now asked for an additional 800 million worth of equipment for their patrol efforts including ships, helicopters, off-road vehicles, and radar. The Italian government is already providing Libya with ten patrol craft, to be delivered before the summer.

TheLibya HeraldreportsLibyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarrajflew to Rome with a shopping list of demands, including the call for more money and equipment,in the wake of some 20,000 having made the crossing this year alone. An estimated 3,000 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean in just the past weekend.

The new agreement struck Monday with Italy and other European nations agreeing to help Libya patrol her coastand keep the smuggler boats from setting off was short on actual detail or a plan to improve the situation, but instead showed a will, said the Italian interior minister. Democratic party minister Marco Minniti said of the meeting:

Naturally we havent resolved the problem because its clear no one has the definitive solution to the problem in their pockets.

But we have common will. And this common will has a common objective: to not chase or suffer illegal migration but govern it.

Austrian interior ministerWolfgang Sobotka praised the movement with Libya, telling press:We have to do everything we can to stop the illegal migration across the Mediterranean, reportsKronen Zeitung.

The spending of British and European money in Libya has come under considerable criticism this year, as the poor conditions of migrant camps set up in the country courted criticism. Future spending may see camps established in other North African nations.

While a not insignificant amount of money, the 800 million now discussed will be dwarfed by coming European contributions if a new African Marshall Plan, an aid package designed to boost African nations, is put into place. President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani said if the bloc doesnt start pumping cash into the continent immediately, 20 million Africans are going to come to Europe in the coming years.

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