EU border agency expects same number of migrants via Libya this year as last

By Gabriela BaczynskaBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union should expect as many migrants crossing from Libya this year as last, when a record number disembarked in Italy, the head of the bloc's border agency said on Wednesday.Some 1.6 million refugees and migrants reached the bloc by crossing the Mediterranean in 2014-2016 and the main route now leads from the shores of the lawless Libya to Italy."There was an increase by 17 percent last year so we had approximately 181,000 irregular border c