{"id":443084,"date":"2026-01-15T13:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/01\/15\/egitto-la-commissione-ue-eroga-un-miliardo-di-aiuti-macro-finanziari\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:34:48","slug":"european-commission-provides-1-billion-in-macro%e2%80%91financial-assistance-for-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/01\/15\/european-commission-provides-1-billion-in-macro%e2%80%91financial-assistance-for-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission provides 1 billion in macro\u2011financial assistance for Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; The European Commission has provided&nbsp;<strong>1&nbsp;billion euros in&nbsp;<span lang=\"en-GB\" class=\"HwtZe\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/economy-finance.ec.europa.eu\/eu-financial-assistance\/macro-financial-assistance-mfa_en\" target=\"_blank\">macro-financial assistance<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span>to Egypt<\/strong>, an important&nbsp;commitment&nbsp;of the EU-Egypt Strategic Comprehensive Partnership signed in March 2024. T<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en-GB\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">his financial support is the first of the expected three installments under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/10\/23\/first-eu-egypt-summit-in-brussels-4-billion-loan-for-cairo-ready\/\">the ongoing&nbsp;4&nbsp;billion euro program<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">In its assessment, the Commission concluded that Egypt fulfilled all the required conditions for disbursement, namely the agreed economic policy conditions and the adoption of &#8220;concrete and credible measures&#8221; to respect effective democratic mechanisms, including a multi-party parliamentary system, uphold the rule of law, and ensure respect for human rights.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">&nbsp;<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en-GB\">&#8220;<span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Today\u2019s \u20ac1 billion disbursement recognizes the progress Egypt has made in implementing important reforms that will help place its economy on a more sustainable path,&#8221; said Economy Commissioner <strong>Valdis Dombrovskis<\/strong>. &#8220;At a time of growing geopolitical fragmentation, Egypt remains a strategic partner for the European Union. The support provided through our Macro-Financial Assistance programme underpins the strength and depth of our partnership.&#8221;<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU sees &#8220;concrete and credible&#8221; progress on human rights and economic reforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231922,"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":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","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","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774],"tags":[31257,26453,26515,25979],"class_list":["post-443084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","tag-cooperation-en","tag-egypt-and","tag-valdis-dombrovskis-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443084","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443085,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443084\/revisions\/443085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}