The Italian authorities has mobilized “billions of euros in private and public resources” on an African scale, flowing into areas similar to power, meals safety, bodily infrastructure and well being “collaborations”.
The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, thus inaugurated her speech on the second version of the Italy-Africa summit, underway in Addis Ababa greater than two years after the debut summit in Rome in 2024: the launch platform of the so-called Mattei Plan for Africa, the technique for the “paradigm shift” in continental relations declared by the Italian authorities’s initiative. Meloni claimed the chief’s “change of approach” and the break with “predatory” and “paternalistic” logic in direction of the continent, reiterating the leitmotif of the “new page” with Africa and the “extraordinary potential” of the continental economies.
Meloni spoke on the summit, inaccessible to the press, after a bilateral assembly with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and within the presence of the Ethiopian chief himself, the president of the African Union and Angola João Lourenço, the president of the AU Commission Mohammed Ali Youssouf, and the final secretary of the United Nations António Guterres. Tomorrow 14 February would be the flip of his speech on the thirty ninth summit of the heads of state and authorities of the AU.
The origins and criticisms on the prime
The summit didn’t reserve any new bulletins with respect to the initiatives already detailed within the annual studies of the Plan, however from what Il Sole 24 Ore has discovered, the target of the summit is above all of a political nature: to gather suggestions from African governments, making an attempt to steadiness the price of the controversies of the primary summit in opposition to the shortage of involvement of African leaders within the Plan.
The plan was born with an authentic allocation of 5.5 billion euros transferred from Cooperation and the Climate Fund, projecting itself in direction of a union with the European Global Gateway consecrated by the Italy-EU summit on Africa in June 2025. The technique is split into six thematic pillars and is expressed right now on a basin of 14 African nations, in comparison with the 9 initially indicated: Algeria, Angola, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Tanzania and Tunisia.
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