Christian Berger, the EU Ambassador to Cairo, announced that the EU has established a 225 million-euro fund to help Egypt in various fields to meet Egypt's wheat needs in the sake of the Russian war on Ukraine. According to Burger, he will alert the EU to Egypt's demands so that export quotas can be reviewed for some crops in order to improve access to European markets, especially grape and strawberry crops. The EU has demonstrated its desire for more partnerships with Egypt, which is the EU's number one partner in Africa and second partner in the Middle East region in general. He added, due to its importance in achieving joint cooperation with Europe, the EU is also interested in developing nearly all economic sectors with Egypt. On Friday, Berger spoke at an event for the Horticultural Export Improvement Association (HEIA). In remarks made during a Horticultural Export Improvement Cooperation event, Berger emphasized the importance of energy, especially natural gas, to Europe. During the EU's period of diversification, the EU plans to reduce Russian gas imports by 70 percent by the end of December 2022. In addition to Egypt being a major gas importer, he emphasized that Egypt also needs to keep the gas it produces, a tripartite agreement exists between the EU, Egypt, and Israel, which calls for Israeli gas to be imported by Egypt, condensed, liquefied, and exported. There are 1.3 billion euros worth of EU projects being funded in Egypt across all fields, including agriculture, water resources management, and food security. Egypt will receive EU support for a successful organization of the climate summit COP27 in November, he said. Egypt EU (EU)
