Senegal’s new President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, inaugurated on April 2, advocated a “reimagined” partnership with the EU during a joint announcement with European Council President Charles Michel, who was visiting Senegal.
Between Europe and Senegal, “cooperation is intensive and multidimensional, but together we want a reimagined, rebuilt partnership” and “able to support the innovative dynamism that we want to imprint on our relations”, President Diomay Faye declared. of.
Mr Faye promised in his program to re-establish the “sovereignty” that he had sold abroad and in particular to renegotiate gas and oil contracts signed with the EU as well as fishing agreements. Wanted to talk.
Senegalese fishermen face overexploitation of fishing resources, even though their activity represents an important part of this coastal country’s economy.
“When there is a feeling that issues should be addressed, we should not be afraid of it” in order to “bring about improvements on both sides”, Mr Mitchell declared, referring to “the question of fishing and fishery resources”.
The Senegalese President indicated that his government’s priorities are “structured around an endogenous economic model of industrialization, whose primary sectors are launching pads: agriculture, livestock and fishing; but also railways, electrification, telecommunications and roads such as There is also strengthening of economic infrastructure.” network.
“European investors whose companies have proven skills in these various sectors are welcome,” he said.
“We have a very objective interest in being able to address the challenges, development, economic emergence and improvement of the living conditions of the population in Senegal,” the President of the European Council indicated.
“The world order is the result of political choices that were made in the last century in a completely different world”, which is why the EU “supports more justice and more inclusion”, Mr Michel assured.