Less than three weeks after their first bilateral summit in Amman (see EUROPE 13782/1), the European Union and Jordan highlighted the strengthening of their economic ties on Monday 26 January in Brussels at an event aimed at bringing together European companies and their Jordanian counterparts.
For the European Commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Šuica, the objective is now to “move from political commitment to concrete economic investment”. She praised the stabilising role in the Middle East of a country that possesses “not only oil, but also talent”.
Ms Šuica mentioned three flagship projects in which the European private sector could become involved: the Aqaba Amman seawater desalination project, a project to make Jordan a regional centre for digital connectivity, and the extension of the Medusa submarine cable project.
Jordan’s Minister for International Cooperation, Zeina Toukan, announced that a conference to promote investment in her country will be held on Tuesday 21 April on the shores of the Dead Sea.
Among other promising sectors in Jordan, she cited “green hydrogen, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and critical raw materials”.
For the period 2025-2027, the EU/Jordan partnership has been allocated €3 billion in European funding (see EUROPE 13568/19). (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)