Because the EU pays Libyan militias millions of euros to detain anyone deemed a possible migrant to Europe. Death by starvation, death by beatings, death by execution. A leaked EU internal memorandum in 2020 acknowledged that capturing migrants was now “a profitable business model”. That is about as morally honest as the EU’s presentation of its migration policy as being for the good of African nations. Britain may have left the EU, but the EU’s migration mentality remains firmly lodged in British policy.
