The European Union, EU, is Cameroon’s long term partner, with relations spanning several decades. It is in this light that the outgoing EU Ambassador to Cameroon, His Excellency Hans-Peter Schadek, met with the Minister of Finance, Louis Paul Motaze in Yaounde on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 in Yaounde.
The Ambassador said it was a farewell courtesy visit at the end of his three-year tour of duty. During the meeting, he said they discussed cooperation between Cameroon and the EU. “In the past three years, the Minister of Finance and I worked on a number of issues, including finance reforms. Cameroon is EU’s long time partner. This is something my successor and the Minister will continue to work on. My prayer is that collaboration will continue from where I ended,” Ambassador Schadek explained. 
He described his tenure as “… three years of intensive activities full of challenges; to which the Coronavirus pandemic added in March 2020.” He said both sides need to continue to work hard to overcome this crisis. “There has been very close and fruitful cooperation between us and the Minister of Finance. We are engaged in support of the reforms the Minister is leading,” he went on. 
“During my tenure, the Minister of Finance and a group of donors sat down together to discuss these reforms. There was good progress in this direction, but the Coronavirus pandemic came up in the past few months, thereby necessitating a review of forecasts and prospects for the economy worldwide,” Ambassador Hans-Peter Schadek underscored.