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In Sudan, Silatech signed an agreement with the Agricultural
Bank of Sudan to promote microfinance in support of youth
entrepreneurs to create 23.000 jobs, in addition to partnering
with the Social Development Bank to create 20.000 jobs
for graduates to start their own enterprises. In Tunisia,
Silatech signed an agreement to create more than 580.000
jobs through providing support to entrepreneurs to start
and grow their own businesses, and support the innovative
Smart Tunisia program in enabling to create 50.000 jobs
by 2020. With the collaboration of Qatar Red Crescent,
Silatech provides training courses for displaced youth in
Syria to develop their skills. In Palestine, Silatech, with the
partnership of the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Group, has launched
the “Khadamati” portal to allow craftsmen in Palestine to
advertise their products and services and connect them
with customers and markets beyond Palestine borders, in
addition to signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU)
with UNRWA to promote employment opportunities for
youth working in the construction sector. Building on the
success of the pilot partnership program, Silatech renewed its
partnership with Attawfiq Microfinance in Morocco, adding
up to 140.000 jobs for Moroccan youth.
Being in Brussels, close to the European Union,
which topics are on the priority list to enhance
the relationships between Qatar and the EU?
Economics, Energy, Finance, Culture, EU relations?
Relations between the EU and Qatar are considered to be
excellent. Over the last few years, both the political and the
economic relationship between the European Union and
Qatar have been deepened considerably by official visits and
rising bilateral trade agreements.
This cooperation is particularly evident in a number of
areas:
THE TRADE EXCHANGE
Periodic meetings between the State of Qatar and the
delegation of relations within the Peninsula in the European
Parliament (DARP), which holds parliamentary meetings
with the Shura Council of the State of Qatar, with the aim
to strengthen bilateral relations and especially parliamentary
ones.
THE QATARI-EUROPEAN POLITICAL DIALOGUE
As part of European Union efforts to strengthen relations
with the world, the External Action Service (EEAS) has
chosen Qatar as a key country in the region to engage a
special political dialogue on various issues of common
concern and to coordinate our positions on a number of
regional and international affairs. For this purpose, four
rounds of dialogue were held sequentially in Brussels in