Day: May 11, 2017

Belgian minister proposes to transfer illegal immigrants to Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco

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Belgian Foreign Minister Theo Franken told Reuters on Thursday that the European Union should not accept the entry of African migrants who are pushing human smugglers to cross the Mediterranean Sea but must return them. Only then can the Union open legal avenues to accept refugees and migrants to Europe and airlift them in accordance with a maximum year instead of the uncontrolled outflow of 1.6 million people to the shores of Europe between 2014 and 2016, he said. We have to fix this by being clear: getting a ticket…

Joint Declaration on the occasion of the EU-Tunisia Association Council of 11 May 2017

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The thirteenth session of the Association Council of the European Union and Tunisia took place in Brussels on 11 May 2017. The session was co-chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta, George VELLA, whose country holds the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union, on behalf of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission, and by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tunisia, Mr. Khemaies Jhinaoui. Mr. Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood…

Tunisair announces new flights to Italy from 12/6

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More Tunisair flights will connect Tunisia with Italy starting in the summer. In addition to the 37 flights connecting Italy with Tunis (from Rome, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Naples and Palermo), there will from June 12 also be two weekly flights from Milan’s Malpensa airport, one to Djerba and one to Monastir. The flights have been introduced in the hope of contributing significantly to a recovery of Italian tourism towards Tunisia, which is expected by those working in the sector and which ahs been aided by better security and less turbulence…

Tunisia: date exports generate high revenues

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Revenues from date exports have increased by 31.5% from the beginning of the season (October 1, 2016) to May 8, compared to the same period of the previous season, rising to 453.6 MD (87 thousand tons) against 345 MD (80.6 thousand tons). The quantities of organic dates exported during the same period amounted to 5,353 thousand tons, worth 35,498 MD, representing a 17.8% increase in revenue compared to the previous year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries. Morocco is the second most important destination for exports…

Interview: Tunisia boasts cultural assets to attract Chinese investment — minister

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Tunisia’s cultural assets will be able to attract Chinese investors, Tunisian Culture Minister Mohamed Zine El-Abidine has said. “Tunisia has a very important continental role in the Maghreb and the Arab zones,” Zine El-Abidine, who will participate in the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on May 14-15, told Xinhua in an interview Wednesday. The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, comprising the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, aims to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa…