The ninth meeting of the EU-Egypt Association Council is set to kick off on Sunday in Luxembourg.
The event will be co-chaired by Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.
It will endorse the new EU-Egypt Partnership Priorities document 2021–2027, which will guide the partnership between both parties, Egypt’s official news agency MENA reported.
The meeting will also tackle the relation between Egypt and the EU, as well as other political issues.
Participants will discuss in the plenary session the developments and prospects of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Egypt.
The political dialogue will then touch on global and regional issues of common interest.
The meeting comes a few days after EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Cairo and met with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Sisi said the EU is Cairo’s key partner in various fields, adding that they both agree to lay the foundations for a strategic partnership.”
Von der Leyen pledged “immediate relief of 100 million euros” to support food security in Egypt, which has relied on Russia and Ukraine for over 80% of its wheat.
Egypt has been pressing to achieve a qualitative leap in its partnership with the EU in the future by enhancing cooperation in various major sectors, including energy and clean energy, food security, digital transformation, electric transport, modern agriculture and irrigation, and vaccine production.
It has established mechanisms to encourage European companies to invest more in Egypt and signed a tripartite cooperation with the EU and their partners in the African continent.
