Combined Italian and EU efforts to shore up the Libyan coast guard will cost €285 million over the next few years.
Speaking to MEPs in the civil liberty committee on Tuesday (28 November), Mario Morcone from the Italian interior ministry, said the figure covers expenses up until 2023.
"The project is going to cost €285 million, the whole thing," he said.
The plan is to create operational centres in Libya to "help search and rescue operations at sea" and to better coordinate ...
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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.