Tunisia and the European Union signed a memorandum of understanding today, Sunday, in the Carthage Palace, which provides for the establishment of a “strategic and comprehensive partnership” in the field of economic development, renewable energy and the fight against illegal migration.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the agreement, which aims to invest in shared prosperity and includes “five pillars”, including migration issues.
President Qais Said said today, Sunday, in a speech he delivered at the Carthage Palace during the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding on the “strategic and comprehensive partnership between Tunisia and the European Union” that the memorandum stipulates the need for rapprochement between peoples at that time, when the peoples of the world strive for synergy and solidarity, reports the Tunisian news agency.
He stressed the need for this memorandum to be “accompanied as soon as possible by a set of binding agreements based on the principles it contains.”
He added: “We are determined to implement what is contained in the memorandum as soon as possible”, stressing that countries “want effective equality and do not want empathy without respect.”
President Qais Said said: “Today we need a collective agreement on brutal migration and displacement operations driven by criminal networks.”
He believed that addressing the issue of illegal migrants and their conditions could only be a collective way of addressing the causes before addressing the consequences.
At a press conference attended by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the Tunisian president said that among the challenges countries face today is “the need to find new ways cooperation outside the framework of the world monetary system that was created after the war. World War II because it divided the world into two halves, half for the rich and half for the poor, and this monetary system can no longer continue in the same form and content.
On 11 June, a joint statement between Tunisia and the European Union was signed at the Carthaginian Palace on the occasion of a meeting attended by the President of the Republic, Kais Syed, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. , Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
The joint statement included an agreement to work together on a “comprehensive partnership package” to strengthen ties that bring the two parties together in the common interest of the two parties. The Comprehensive Partnership will cover the areas of strengthening economic and trade relations and establishing partnerships in the field of sustainable and competitive energy, immigration and the rapprochement of peoples.
