{"id":198454,"date":"2025-05-20T06:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypt-pushes-eu-to-release-e4b-in-aid-proposes-africa-focused-ties\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T06:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:12:39","slug":"africa-egypt-pushes-eu-to-release-e4b-in-aid-proposes-africa-focused-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypt-pushes-eu-to-release-e4b-in-aid-proposes-africa-focused-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Egypt Pushes EU to Release \u20ac4b in Aid, Proposes Africa-Focused Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Atty on Sunday pressed the European Union to fast-track the release of the second tranche of a \u20ac4 billion financial support package, as Cairo seeks to deepen strategic and economic ties with the bloc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Speaking during talks in Cairo with EU Commissioner for International Partnerships Jozef S\u00edkela, Minister Abdel-Atty emphasised the importance of accelerating funding to support Egypt&#8217;s development efforts in key sectors, including renewable energy, healthcare,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505190075.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Atty on Sunday pressed the European Union to fast-track the release of the second tranche of a \u20ac4 billion financial support package, as Cairo seeks to deepen strategic and economic ties with the bloc. Speaking during talks in Cairo with EU Commissioner for International Partnerships Jozef S\u00edkela, Minister Abdel-Atty emphasised the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,51386,7828,4697,415,257,7995,16296,6011,254,7051],"class_list":["post-198454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africafocused","tag-aid","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-proposes","tag-pushes","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}