By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and ANGELA CHARLTON (Associated Press) TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — European leaders visiting Tunisia on Sunday held out the promise of more than 1 billion euros in financial …
By Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Angela Charlton | Associated Press
On the eve of the talks, Tunisian President Kais Saied made an unannounced visit to a migrant camp in the coastal city of Sfax, a central jumping-off point for boat journeys crossing the Mediterranean to Italy. Saied spoke with families living in the camp and pleaded for international aid for Africans who converge on Tunisia as a transit point to reach Europe.
In addition, the EU is discussing investment in high-speed broadband and other digital infrastructure for Tunisia and 300 million euros in hydrogen and other renewable energy projects, von der Leyen said. “Europe has not seen Tunisia as a country in need of cooperation based on genuine democracy guaranteeing rights and freedoms, but merely as an advanced border point requiring more equipment to contain immigration, with the aim that no one should be able to reach Europe,” it said in a statement Sunday.
Saied has balked at conditions for the IMF money, which include cuts to subsidies on flour and fuel, cuts to the large public administration sector, and the privatization of loss-making public companies.
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