The 21st edition of the Tunisian Investment Forum, TIF 2024, will attract several European investors, Head of the Economic Section at the European Union Delegation to Tunisia Marco Stella told TAP on Thursday. This special edition is entitled «EU-Tunisia Business Forum.»
“Several contracts will be signed to boost Tunisian-European partnership, including a credit line to support small- and medium-sized (SMEs) funded by the EU and the European Investment Bank (around €150 million) and the French Development Agency (AFD) (around €70 million).
This in addition to support for the completion of the Sfax-Kasserine highway which could promote investment in these regions,” he further said on the sidelines of a workshop organised in Tunis on “Fostering Job Creation Through Inclusive Entrepreneurship in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries.”
Stella also reaffirmed the EU’s commitment to keep on providing technical and financial support for initiatives aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and creating sustainable jobs.
It is highly important, he said, to establish links between Mediterranean countries and the EU so as to reach joint solutions for promoting sustainable employment, especially for young people and women.
The Team Europe Initiative (TEI)’s main goal is to meet the pressing challenges of unemployment, particularly among young people and women in the southern and eastern Mediterranean countries, he added.
Team Europe consists of the European Union, EU Member States — including their implementing agencies and public development banks — as well as the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). It is the EU’s financial instrument of international cooperation (from 2021 to 2027)
The workshop on “Fostering Job Creation Through Inclusive Entrepreneurship in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries” is co-organised by the Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Institutes of Economic Sciences (FEMISE), the Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises (BUSINESSMED) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
