French and European taxpayers risk paying more than 300 million euros to a Chinese company operating in Senegal. While one in ten Europeans lives below the poverty line, we should have other priorities than financing 380 natural‑gas buses for the city of Dakar. Yet it is the modest sum of 320 million euros that was promised to finance this market by a consortium composed of the EIB, the Commission, and the French Development Agency. But this scandal does not end there. It is the Chinese state‑owned company China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, largely backed by Beijing, that would be taking the market, as Euractiv reveals. A farce, especially since this project comes from the Global Gateway program intended to allow the EU to weigh in on the international stage and compete… with Chinese influence. Europeans cannot let this happen. At the next plenary session of the European Parliament, I will ask that projects financed in third countries with European money include a European preference clause to favor our companies. __📲 Share on X!