Cooperation Between the European Union and Libya about Migration and AsylumThe Eventual Creation of Disembarkation Platforms

Resumen

During the so-called migration crisis, Libya has become a key partner for the European Union. From the 2015 European Agenda on Migration to the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Libya, several declarations and financial instruments have followed one another, focusing mainly on the need to improve Libyan infrastructures that manage migration within their land and maritime borders. However, the failure of relocation and resettlement measures, the growing lack of solidarity among the Member States of the EU and the terrible perception for Europe of the loss of innocent lives at its external borders, renews the approach of possible political solutions that include the creation of enclaves in third states where migrants rescued at sea are disembarked. The aim of our paper is to analyse the June 2018 proposal for the creation of agreements with third states for the disembarkation of rescued migrants in the Mediterranean, and to highlight the legal issues arising from the delocalization of border control in a territory like Libya.