EU pledges 80 million euros in budget support, offers to revisit trade rules with Tunisia

The European Union's delegation in Tunisia said on Saturday, in a statement on its official Facebook page, that it will soon sign a new 80 million euro agreement to support Tunisia's state budget, under a social inclusion programme. EU ambassador Giuseppe Perrone separately told a private radio station that European partners are ready for a "global dialogue and constructive negotiations" with Tunisian authorities to revise the trade rules in the association agreement signed in 1995. He called the EU a historic and reliable partner open to modernising that framework, and pointed to the ELMED power interconnection with Italy as a priority for energy cooperation.

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