Italy's grand Mattei Plan for Africa
is not a "closed box" but an idea to be shared with African
countries, Premier Giorgia Meloni said in her closing speech to
the Italy-Africa Summit in Rome Monday.
"I said this morning and I reiterate it; on the Mattei plan we
do not have a closed box: we have an idea to share, I have
waited to see if this idea that we have in our heads is shared
and sharable by our interlocutors because it can only be done
together".
Italy's so-called Mattei Plan, the planned new strategic
partnership with African countries to address the root causes of
irregular migration and turn Italy into a sort of hub for energy
supplies from Africa to Europe as the continent tries to reduce
its dependency on Russian oil and gas supplies after Moscow's
invasion of Ukraine, can count on a budget of 5.5 billion euro
including "loans, grants and guarantees", Meloni told the summit
earlier.
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