POLITICO quotes Rafik Hariri Center Resident Senior Fellow Karim Mezran on EU efforts to assist Libya:
“There are many powerful subjects that are profiting from the actual chaos and that are opposing a deal: people-smugglers, local mobsters, terrorist groups, warlords,” said Karim Mezran, a Libya expert at Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank. “Rationally I am not very optimistic.”