Med: Di Maio, we need a development pact between Europe and Africa

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 04 - "As the President of the Council Mario Draghi said yesterday in his opening address, Europanon cannot afford to consider the Mediterranean only as a southern border. Nor can we look at the Mediterranean as a crisis area in we are condemned to a mere crisis management. To counter the root causes of poverty, migratory flows, terrorism, conflicts, we need to forge a development pact between Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa. The horizon of post-pandemic recovery offers new spaces and tools to do so. , such as those made available by the Economic and Investment Plan for the Southern Neighborhood of the European Union ". This was said by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in his closing speech of the 7th edition of the Med Dialogues, promoted by Farnesina and Ispi. (HANDLE).