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Berlin (APA / Reuters / dpa) – German Development Minister Gerd Müller calls for a mbadive strengthening of EU policy in Africa. "Europe is about to miss Africa as a chance of the century," said CSU politician of the newspaper "Rheinische Post" (Monday issue). "We need an EU-Africa Commissioner, where all the threads of a coherent African policy converge."
In addition, the EU budget must set new priorities – instead of adhering to the ideas of the 1980s, Müller recalled According to the preliminary report. From 2021 to 2027, the EU wants to spend only 39 billion euros for Africa. "It's a tenth of what is reserved for agricultural policy, and a testimony of the little that we perceive Africa as an opportunity for opportunity," the minister criticized. On the other hand, the minister announced that the transit countries close to the African countries of origin should be more and more informed of the dangers of the flight from Africa to Northern Europe. be. "Three times more refugees die in the desert than in the Mediterranean," Müller told the newspaper. With partners like France and Britain, he wanted to "warn against illusions about Europe" in Nigeria, Eritrea and Somalia.
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