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Europe will find it difficult to continue to be seen as an honest broker in the Libyan process (Photo: Flickr)

Operation Irini is wrong, for Libya and for sea rescues

With Irini (Eirene), the Greek goddess of peace, the European member states have set themselves a high bar when choosing the name for the new naval mission in the Mediterranean.

Much of the intra-European negotiation process that led to this operation could probably have been conducted better under Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord.

As a reminder: on 19 January a process for conflict management in Libya initiated by Germany's Federal Foreign Office and the Chancellery...

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