{"id":173959,"date":"2018-04-24T20:01:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T23:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=173959"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:01:36","slug":"eu-wants-turn-egypt-regional-energy-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/eu-wants-turn-egypt-regional-energy-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"EU wants to turn Egypt into a regional energy hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The European Union has shown interest in striking a partnership with Egypt to turn the African nation in a local energy hub, said the country\u2019s minister of Petroleum, Tarek Al-Mulla (pictured above), in a speech at the Sustainable Energy Forum held in Cairo, as reported by the <em>Kuwait<\/em> <em>News Agency (KUNA)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday (23), Egypt and the European Union signed a memorandum of understanding for a new strategic cooperation in the energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Canete, said that Egypt has great potential to become a regional energy hub. The European bloc, in turn, is interested in offering financial and technical support, as well as expertise and technology transfer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Egyptian minister, the country has been taking \u201cserious steps\u201d to become a regional gas, energy and oil center. Al-Mulla said that the European Union is \u201can important strategic partner\u201d to Egypt and has always supported the country when needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-173953\">KUNA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European bloc has shown interest in offering financial and technical support and expertise and technology transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":173953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[421,26760,34179,2099,576],"class_list":{"0":"post-173959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-egypt","9":"tag-egito-en-2","10":"tag-energia-en","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-european-union"},"wps_subtitle":"The European bloc has shown interest in offering financial and technical support and expertise and technology transfer. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}