Europe also wants its “silk roads”

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Seventy projects, half of which in Africa.

Adorned at the end of 2021 with a rather pompous title, the Global Gateway or “world portal”, this famous program of the European Union which aims to be a response to the Chinese silk roads in developing countries, will soon begin to materialize. .

The Twenty-Seven should decide at the beginning of February on a first list of projects supported in 2023 by this major plan of 300 billion euros which runs until 2027. Initially designed to respond to the vast infrastructure projects financed by Beijing in Asia, in Europe or Africa, the Global Gateway will now also have to deal with a Russia that is increasingly present in Africa.

The continent will focus the attention of Europeans.

Thus, of these 300 billion dedicated to the construction of transport, education, energy or digital equipment, 150 billion will be reserved for it.

Money that will come from the pockets of the Member States, via the…

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