Qaddafi proposes EU pay Libya $125 billion euros to stop Europe from becoming too “Black”

• September 8th, 2010 1:30 am PT

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has proposed a deal with the European Union (EU) to address the African illegal immigration problem. Qaddafi proposes that the EU should pay Libya $125 billion euros in reparations for Italian colonialism. Under this agreement, the EU would pay Libya $5 billion euros in the form of infrastructure investments over the next 25 years as compensation for the colonialism. In exchange, Libya will allow Italian sea patrols off the coast of Libya, where many Africans attempt to reach Europe. Qaddafi stated: “Tomorrow Europe might no longer be European and even black as there are millions who want to come in. We don’t know if Europe will remain an advanced and united continent or if it will be destroyed, as happened with the barbarian invasions.”

The internal security risks that illegal African immigration poses to the EU are of the highest threat level. In the Joint Report by Europol, Eurojust, and Frontex on the State of Internal Security in the EU, it estimates that 900,000 illegal migrants enter the EU each year. In addition, the report stated:
“West Africa’s strategic position between Latin America and the EU is increasingly exploited by cocaine and synthetic drug traffickers, assisted by an increasing flow of licit commodities between West Africa and the EU. Nigerian organized crime groups are active in the EU, particularly in terms of organized fraud and trafficking of human beings for sexual exploitation. East Africa, specifically the Horn of Africa, is increasingly a transit region for Afghan heroin. North Africa (Morocco), meanwhile, continues to be the most prolific supplier of cannabis resin to the EU and acts as a distribution center for counterfeit Euros.

The risk of illegal migration by North, East and West African nationals to the EU remains high, due to geographical proximity, wide economic disparities compared to the EU and sizeable communities already established in several Member States. The West African sea route to Spain from Senegal and Mauritania via the Canary Islands continues to be used by West African nationals. Libya remains a focal point for the Central Mediterranean route to Italy and Malta.”

It is not yet clear whether the EU will agree to Qaddafi proposal. Thus far, the only response by the EU has been from Italian Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, who stated:

“Gaddafi was making an argument all the other Arab leaders in north Africa have made, which is that they don’t want to be the gendarmes of Europe,” Frattini said. “The issue of the 5 billion [euros] has not been looked at up to now. We will look at it in European meetings and I imagine it will be considered at a European-African summit in Libya in November.”