{"id":343664,"date":"2024-03-08T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/08\/von-der-leyen-meloni-egitto-partenariato\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T17:06:39","slug":"von-der-leyen-and-meloni-to-go-to-egypt-to-sign-strategic-partnership-along-the-tunisia-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/08\/von-der-leyen-and-meloni-to-go-to-egypt-to-sign-strategic-partnership-along-the-tunisia-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen and Meloni to go to Egypt to sign strategic partnership along the Tunisia model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Ursula von der Leyen and Giorgia Meloni will fly<\/strong> to Cairo together on Sunday, March 17,<\/strong> to advance negotiations with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on\u00a0signing\u00a0an EU-Egypt Strategic Partnership<\/strong>. Details had already been discussed in Brussels in January<\/a>, at the tenth<\/a> Association Council between the two partners, when EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Oliver V\u00e1rhelyi, predicted the agreement would be closed by the end of February.<\/p>\n

The time is ripe. The prime ministers of Belgium and Greece, Alexander De Croo and Kyriakos M\u012btsotak\u012bs, <\/strong>will be with\u00a0the president of the European Commission and the Italian premier. Replicating\u00a0the\u00a0Team Europe approach that last summer – then, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was with von der Leyen and Meloni – convinced Tunisian President Kais Saied to sign the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding. Today (March 8), European Commission spokeswoman Veerle Nuyts did not go out on a limb, merely confirming that the EU delegation will be in Cairo “as part of the discussions on strengthening the EU-Egypt partnership<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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Ursula von der Leyen and\u00a0Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in\u00a0Cairo in July\u00a02022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The EU-Egypt partnership will be based on six pillars of “mutual interest,” V\u00e1rhelyi and Egypt’s foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry<\/strong>, said\u00a0back on Jan. 23. Political relations, economic stability, investment and trade, migration and mobility, security and demography<\/strong>, and, most importantly,\u00a0energy cooperation<\/strong>. While the Memorandum with Tunisia revolves<\/a>\u00a0around border management and cooperation on migration, for Egypt – a country that already hosts over 9 million migrants on its territory – the challenges and opportunities are different. “Egypt’s potential in terms of green electricity is hard to match,” the EU commissioner had admitted. Brussels is particularly interested\u00a0in the\u00a0enormous energy resources of the North African country:\u00a0<\/strong>not just gas but also renewable energy.<\/p>\n

The EU is already working on implementing the Economic and Investment Plan for Egypt, which includes\u00a0mobilizing 9 billion euros in food, water, and energy investments<\/strong> over 2021-2027, for which 5.8 billion euros have already been mobilized. From the Egyptian perspective, there is nothing more normal than strengthening the partnership with Brussels as\u00a0the EU is already Cairo’s leading trading partner: the 27 in the EU bloc cover more than a quarter of all Egypt’s trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The prime ministers of Italy, Belgium, and Greece will accompany von der Leyen to a meeting with President Al-Sisi on Sunday, March 17, as part of “discussions on strengthening the EU-Egypt partnership.” The partnership will be based on six pillars, focusing on energy cooperation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":285010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[26515,26002,25921],"class_list":["post-343664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-egypt-and","tag-meloni-and","tag-von-der-leyen-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343664"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344801,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343664\/revisions\/344801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}