04/01/07 - Prime Minister of Luxembourg to visit Cape Verde this month PDF Print E-mail
ImageThe Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, will visit Cape Verde later this month to evaluate the progress of the projects financed in the archipelago by the European grand-duchy and to plan new activities for 2007 within the framework of the 2006-2007 bilateral cooperation program, which involves a total of some 45 million euros. Luxembourg is one of Praia’s main allies in its efforts to obtain a special partnership with the European Union.

The projects to be analyzed by Jean-Claude Juncker will include those related to the health sector, namely the construction of a hospital for the northern region of the island of Santiago, to be located in the municipality of Santa Catarina, and of various health centers currently under construction in various locations throughout the country.

Juncker will also discuss the financing of projects related to Professional training, water supplies in the municipality of São Domingos and a study on the issue of water fees in Cape Verde with Cape Verdean Prime Minister José Maria Neves.

During his stay in Cape Verde, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister will also attend the ground-breaking ceremony for the National School of Tourism, a project that has seen subsequent delays due to a conflict pitting residents of Praia’s Achada de Santo António district against the Praia municipal chamber regarding the plot of land on which the school is to be built.

As a result, the establishment will now be built in the district of Caiada, near Jean Piaget University, several kilometers from downtown Praia.

Another issue sure to be on the agenda of the two leaders is the special partnership between Cape Verde and the European Union, a project for which Juncker expressed his support from early on.

 

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