Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the capital Cairo. Photo: - / Egyptian Presidency/AFP
The Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership agreement includes five billion euros in loans over four years, 1.8 billion euros in investment and hundreds of millions for bilateral projects including on migration, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The delegation included three Mediterranean leaders -- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, her Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides.'Cash-for-migration-control'-- with Libya, Tunisia and Mauritania -- to stem the flow of irregular migrants across the Mediterranean Sea.
US-based Human Rights Watch said it had documented"arbitrary arrests and mistreatment of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees by Egyptian authorities".