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Brussels – The intention of the European Union, based on the brand new Czech Eurocommissioner Jozef Síkela, is to assist creating international locations in financial and social improvement, thereby creating new jobs. That is one of the best ways to suppress the basis causes of migration, Síkela stated in an interview with Czech journalists in Brussels. The Czech Eurocommissioner, who’s in command of the worldwide partnership portfolio, will head to Mauritania on his first overseas journey on Wednesday, December 18. He’ll cope with various tasks that the EU helps within the African nation with the native Prime Minister and authorities members, however they may also focus on the problem of unlawful migration.
“The objective is to create added worth in international locations which have uncooked materials wealth. This implies native manufacturing, native valorization, however on the identical time entry via transport corridors to worldwide commerce, world markets, and thereby creating jobs, sustainable improvement, financial wealth, which is the very best technique to suppress the basis causes of migration,” stated Síkela. In response to him, migration normally has two causes, it’s both despair or ambition. “When you provide folks a sustainable future, which consists of the truth that they’ve a job, have entry to schooling, and perspective in their very own nation, then they haven’t any purpose to embark on adventurous journeys, the place they usually threat their very own lives and the lives of their kids,” added the Czech Eurocommissioner.
In response to Síkela, the idea of the International Gateway is to “strengthen Europe’s place in accomplice international locations via tasks that target financial and social improvement”. The primary nation to go to is Mauritania, an important EU accomplice within the Sahel area, furthermore, now the state chairing the African Union. “It performs an important position in regional coordination and, in fact, it’s also a rustic that’s going through migration issues and is to a sure extent a transit nation for migrants who primarily head to the Canary Islands,” stated Síkela. In response to him, there are a selection of tasks in Mauritania that the EU helps. They concern, for instance, the event of a transit community, the development of a 1400-kilometer electrical line from the capital Nouakchott to the town of Néma, or the digitization of the Mauritanian financial system. (December 13)
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