German ambassador Julius Georg Luy depicted the agreement as “the first and important step” for the resumption of German institutions working in Egypt. It will serve as the legal framework for the work of German institutions in Egypt. At the same time, this agreement is making progress in the way as many German institutions are resuming their work in Egypt, it added. German political institutions are close to the German political parties but receive their funding from the German public treasury in accordance with the Bundestag and are independent of the German government in their programmes, the statement explained. Among these NGOs were foreign workers who closed their organisations and returned to their countries.

Source: Daily News Egypt April 01, 2017 14:37 UTC