Italy chooses Algeria for its energy future

Sergio Mattarella, Abdelmadjud Tebboune

Reading through the main titles of the Italian press, one can only note here and there the appeal launched by many experts on the peninsula to learn the lessons of the current international turmoil and to speed up the pace of implementation strategic partnership with Algeria.

Some voices even call for the relaunch of the Galsi gas pipeline construction project from this country to Sardinia, which could reflect this common desire to substantially and significantly sustain bilateral relations.

And in the light of the data coming from Ukraine, a similar choice is called, according to Italian experts, to acquire strategic importance, both for Algeria and for Italy and even for all of Europe.

Some come to recall that it is in this spirit that the Galsi company was created in 2003, in partnership with the Sonatrach group and several European companies, mostly Italian.

And to underline that a number of letters of intent had been signed in Milan in March 2005 and that in-depth talks had taken place in the Lombard capital, with the aim of finalizing the agreements to launch the work on the gas pipeline, which were to be loans for the 2010 deadline.

Today, and precisely on the strength of the strategic partnership desired by the two Heads of State, Abdelmadjud Tebboune and Sergio Mattarella, the relaunch of such ambitious projects, on strong positions and on such priority themes as energy security and transition and economic complementarity, are highly appreciated by both sides of the Mediterranean and are unanimously shared in both Algiers and Rome.

All this would lead, an expert tells us, to greater participation by Italian companies in the effort to modernize the Algerian economy and would go in the direction of shared growth, advocated by the two governments in their very recent meetings.

This project would further link two neighboring countries, which over the years have been able to cultivate convergences of affinities and sympathies, which have been consolidated and which have materialized during difficult times.

Seen from Algiers, the improvement of the living conditions of the middle classes is an imperative at the heart of the economic choices of the new Algeria. Indeed, all the job creation programs launched by the government are based above all on the desire to concretize this effort to diversify the national economy, to which Italy could easily adhere, through its dynamic network of SMEs and P.M.I.

On a strategic level, Italy, like Algeria, is welcoming more and more immigrants from sub-Saharan countries, who decide to work and settle at home and since the phenomenon is growing. o assume significant proportions, Rome needs the support of Algiers, within the framework of this strategic partnership, to achieve an international and European approach to economic exchanges, balanced and approached in an adequate manner.

And as the head of diplomacy Ramtane Lamamra underlined so well, during the recent summit in Brussels U.E-U.A, our region needs more than ever an international plan for the economic development of Africa; massive investments are needed to create new jobs, because continuing to privilege a security approach to the detriment of a comprehensive approach based on development serves no party.

Algeria and Italy can therefore put their strategic partnership at the service of their two economies, but also at the service of better management of global economic relations, which very often have repercussions on the political and social aspects of the States.

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