A large professional training center on renewable energy in Morocco, projects on education in Tunisia, others for accessibility to healthcare in the Ivory Coast: these are some of the pilot projects of the Mattei plan announced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in her speech at Italy-Africa summit in the Senate chamber.
«Sharing is one of the key principles of the Mattei plan, the work of this summit will be crucial to enrich the path», explained Meloni, indicating projects also in Algeria, Mozambique, Egypt, the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Kenya.
The Mattei plan, added the prime minister, "can count on 5.5 billion euros between credits, gift operations and guarantees, around 3 billion from the Italian climate fund and 2.5 from the development cooperation fund".
With this summit, Meloni continues, Italy «makes a precise foreign policy choice, which will lead to reserving Africa a place of honor in the agenda of our presidency of the G7. We are aware of how interconnected the destiny of our continents is, and that it is possible to imagine and write a new page in our relations, a cooperation as equals, far from any predatory temptation and charitable approach. Our future inevitably depends on the future of the African continent."
Again: «Italy has the natural vocation of being a bridge between Africa and Europe, a bridge that we have the advantage of being able to build not starting from scratch but from the solid foundations that a great Italian like Enrico Mattei, founder of Eni, long ago he had the foresight to know how to imagine. We want to start again from that intuition and write a new page of this story together."
A "fluff" plan attacks Calenda, an "empty box" according to Elly Schlein, only "propaganda and nothing concrete" for Faraone of Italia Viva. Bonelli's attack from the Greens was even harsher: «Plan is the result of a predatory and neocolonial vision. The real objective is to have gas and oil in exchange for stopping migrants, and to facilitate this the Government has put 3 billion euros from the climate fund on the table, which should be allocated to the ecological transition, and not to the extraction of fossil fuels In Africa".
(Unioneonline/L)