This is about the short-sightedness of the members.
"[It] has drawn the rest of Europe into the dispute because a travel ban from one member of the continent’s passport-free Schengen agreement is binding on all"
That's what led to s*** like WORLD WAR ONE!!
Maybe that's the point, 'eh, readers?
And aren't you glad you joined the globalist and tyrannical EU?
"In dispute, Libya bars some European visitors" by Bradley S. Klapper, Associated Press | February 17, 2010
GENEVA - Libya is barring and threatening to expel visitors from 25 European nations in a bizarre escalation of a dispute that began two years ago when Swiss officials arrested leader Moammar Ghadafy’s son on suspicion of beating his servants.
Well, I guess this is different from avalanches, bank accounts, or perverts.
The new restrictions could affect everyone from oil executives to tourists from the European nations that allow one another’s citizens to visit without showing a passport. The unexpected move by Libya, which is trying to shed its reputation as an erratic dictatorship, has caused concern in European countries with heavy oil investments there.
Pfft!
Yup, always about OIL or ISRAEL are the AmeriKan agenda-pushers called newspapers.
Ghadafy’s son, Hannibal, was held in a Swiss jail for two days after his arrest in July 2008 because he and his wife were accused of beating their servants in a Geneva hotel. Geneva authorities dropped their criminal investigation after the two servants received compensation from an undisclosed source and withdrew their complaint.
Oh, it was an extortion scheme, 'eh?
In AmeriKa it is usually some female hollering rape by some athlete or rich guy.
Moammar Ghadafy forced Swiss Finance Minister and then-President Hans-Rudolf Merz to apologize in Libya last year and agree to possible compensation claims.
So? Look at what Israel did did to Turkey.
Libya pulled most of its money out of Swiss vaults.
Probably a good idea: Money Monday: The Power of the IRS
And Libyan authorities continue to detain two Swiss citizens after 18 months on charges that Amnesty International and the United Nations have criticized as a form of political revenge.
Were they tortured the way AmeriKa tortures its detainees?
In response, Switzerland suspended a deal aimed to improve bilateral relations, and initiated a visa blacklist that included Ghadafy and his family. That has drawn the rest of Europe into the dispute because a travel ban from one member of the continent’s passport-free Schengen agreement is binding on all.
Libyan visas from Schengen countries are no longer being treated as valid, European governments said. Nine Italians were forced to fly home from Tripoli’s airport after being denied entry and three Dutchmen were blocked from taking off on a flight to Libya, they said.
European officials said the move was retaliation for cooperation with the Swiss blacklist.
“It’s a very big mess,’’ said Jean Ziegler, a Swiss sociologist who frequently writes about Libya. “Ghadafy feels the family honor has to be avenged. So there is an irrational element to this.’’
A coup in the works or is he too well entrenched?
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What?
Libyan officials refused to comment, but European officials noted that some exceptions were already being made. The Italian Foreign Ministry said 55 of its citizens have now been allowed to enter Libya.
Oh, then point made, crisis over, huh?
Well, that's one, anyway.
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Related: Gadhafi: Obama fears Israel will assassinate him like it did JFK
Interesting TIMING off the PIECE in my agenda-pushing Zionist War Daily, 'eh, readers?
Some coincidence consider the last time I read about Libya in the war-promoter.
That long ago, huh -- until now?
