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According to concordant sources, Bercy blocks the signing of a twelve Rafale contract to Egypt, which requires payment facilities.
According to concordant sources, Bercy blocks the signing of a twelve Rafale contract to Egypt , which requires payment facilities like the previous contracts signed between Cairo and the French arms industry. During his visit to Paris for the next three days, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al- Sissi should remind Emmanuel Macron that he expects a lot of France, according to an observer of Franco-Egyptian relations, particularly in the context of the strategic partnership between the two countries relaunched in 2015.
In this context, Egypt has undertaken a modernization of its armed forces with the support of France. France is committed to providing new equipment, in particular to the air force (24 Rafale, a military telecom satellite) and to the navy (four corvettes Gowind, one FREMM, two BPC). This represented nearly seven billion euros (6.83 billion) contracts for the French arms industry between 2014 and 2016.
Bercy blocks all contracts with Egypt
The Rafale contract is no exception. Bercy blocks all contracts on Egypt whether military or civilian. Why? It is a problem of outstanding on this country. With the important contracts recently signed between the two countries, the envelope allocated by Bercy to Bpifrance (formerly COFACE) on this country is fully used, says one La Tribune. And Bercy does not want to add an envelope estimating that the country risk is deteriorating. Emmanuel Macron will he untie this contract? It could because Egypt should count on a growth of 6% per year as of this year.
However, according to a source interviewed by La Tribune, there was no default of payment from Egypt. Another source nuance indicating that there has been no defaults recently.According to the first source, Cairo has money to pay the bills.In particular, Egypt will be able to rely on gas production in the Mediterranean from the end of this year. In 2015, the Italian energy company ENI discovered on behalf of Egypt a huge offshore gas field in its territorial waters off Port Said (Zohr deposit). What to satisfy the domestic demand for several decades, to return to the export and thus to benefit from new foreign currency receipts
@Vergennes @Taygibay
According to concordant sources, Bercy blocks the signing of a twelve Rafale contract to Egypt , which requires payment facilities like the previous contracts signed between Cairo and the French arms industry. During his visit to Paris for the next three days, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al- Sissi should remind Emmanuel Macron that he expects a lot of France, according to an observer of Franco-Egyptian relations, particularly in the context of the strategic partnership between the two countries relaunched in 2015.
In this context, Egypt has undertaken a modernization of its armed forces with the support of France. France is committed to providing new equipment, in particular to the air force (24 Rafale, a military telecom satellite) and to the navy (four corvettes Gowind, one FREMM, two BPC). This represented nearly seven billion euros (6.83 billion) contracts for the French arms industry between 2014 and 2016.
Bercy blocks all contracts with Egypt
The Rafale contract is no exception. Bercy blocks all contracts on Egypt whether military or civilian. Why? It is a problem of outstanding on this country. With the important contracts recently signed between the two countries, the envelope allocated by Bercy to Bpifrance (formerly COFACE) on this country is fully used, says one La Tribune. And Bercy does not want to add an envelope estimating that the country risk is deteriorating. Emmanuel Macron will he untie this contract? It could because Egypt should count on a growth of 6% per year as of this year.
However, according to a source interviewed by La Tribune, there was no default of payment from Egypt. Another source nuance indicating that there has been no defaults recently.According to the first source, Cairo has money to pay the bills.In particular, Egypt will be able to rely on gas production in the Mediterranean from the end of this year. In 2015, the Italian energy company ENI discovered on behalf of Egypt a huge offshore gas field in its territorial waters off Port Said (Zohr deposit). What to satisfy the domestic demand for several decades, to return to the export and thus to benefit from new foreign currency receipts
@Vergennes @Taygibay