Brussels: Europe and Arabs
D. Badr Abdel -Ati, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, with "Antonio Costa", head of the European Council at the beginning of his current visit to the Belgian capital, Brussels.
 According to a statement issued on the Egyptian embassy website on the media, during the meeting, the two sides discussed the peculiarity of bilateral relations between Egypt and the European Union, and the importance of following up the implementation of the various six axes of the strategic and comprehensive partnership between the two sides signed last year. This, and the economic file was of great importance to the two sides during the meeting, as Egypt is associated with the European Union with a set of important economic agreements that include many developmental and investment fields, and the European Union is one of the most important commercial partners of Egypt, as well as the European Union Egypt is a partner A major strategy in the field of energy.
The Egyptian embassy in Brussels added this, and the two sides exchanged views on the recent regional developments in the Middle East region by contacting the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, and the resulting injection of the blood of the Palestinian people and the contribution to the enforcement of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and the release of the hostages and the prisoners Where the head of the European Council praised the pivotal role of Egypt in the Middle East as a basic pillar of preserving the security and stability of the region. The two sides also discussed the recent developments in Syria, Lebanon, the Horn of Africa, and the Red Sea.