The EU's police agency, Europol, wants to start collaborating with Libyan authorities to clamp down on migrant smuggling.
An internal paper from the Hague-based agency, dated from earlier this month, says privacy issues are making the task difficult despite the operational presence of military and intelligence authorities of EU states inside the war-torn country.
"There is a clear gap in information flows," notes the paper.
The agency wants to start exchanging sensitive info...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.