EU pledges 100 million euros to aid Libya's unity government

TUNIS (AP) — The European Union's foreign policy chief has unveiled a 100 million euro ($109 million) aid package for Libya's fledgling unity government one day after an attack by a suicide bomber killed at least 60 policemen.

Federica Mogherini announced the aid deal Friday at a joint press conference with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj in Tunis, the capital of neighboring Tunisia, where the unity government is temporarily based.

Mogherini condemned Thursday's mass killing of officers and called security "the greatest challenge Libya faces."

An affiliate of the Islamic State extremist group in eastern Libya claimed responsibility for the attack in Zliten, when an attacker detonated a truck bomb beside a police training center.

Mogherini, who spent Friday in talks with senior Libyan officials, said EU nations would offer Libya "technical and logistical" support for battling extremists, but no troops on the ground.

Libya slid into chaos following the 2011 toppling and killing of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The oil-rich country long has been torn between an Islamist government based in the capital, Tripoli, and a rival United Nations-recognized administration in eastern Libya. The unity government, forged last month following U.N.-led negotiations, is currently based in Tunis because of security risks back home.

-- (c) Associated Press 2016-01-09

And, whose money is that they are giving away? Is it coming out of their paychecks? Why don't they give a lot more and prop up Iraq and Syria and oh yeah, Saudi Arabia since they are broke too?

Idiots.

We give and we give and all we get in return is grief, when will the powers that be wake up .Next announcement will be an increase in tax

If I was the EU I wouldn't be wasting any more money on any country with the way things are in the ME.

It's sure that this money will not go for help unity in Libya but to fill the pockets of the leaders of the Libyan factions and some European politician

"Here's 100 million euros. We now need unfettered access to your oil fields, and our employs need protection while we suck your reserves dry. Your population? What about them. Let them eat cake I mean falafel errr raw chickpeas ."

Edited January 9, 201610 yr by connda

They were unified under Gadaffi, who also provided a free service stopping boatloads of culture enrichers invading Europe.

Where the f.... do they get all this money they have been spending lately ? Printing or stealing?

Libya didn't need monetary aid under Gaddafi, either.

Good job, everyone! I guess this is what the neo-imperialists wanted.