Mitarbeiter sonstige

The Global Gateway: juggling self-interest, geopolitical competition and developmental aspirations

Keijzer, Niels / Svea Koch / Mark Furness
Mitarbeiter sonstige (2024)

in: Christine Hackenesch / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (eds.), The European Union’s global role in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the new leadership, Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 8-9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23661/idp11.2024.1
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Since its announcement in September 2021, the Global Gateway has gradually come to dominate the European Union (EU)’s external action and development policy discourse. First announced to the European Parliament in September 2021 in response to the EU member states’ call for an EU global connectivity strategy, the EU presented its Global Gateway initiative to the world in December 2021. The Global Gateway promises large-scale infrastructure investments in five sectors: digital; climate and energy; transport; health; and education and research. It is designed to promote the EU’s own geo-economic interests, and in particular its energy and overall supply chain diversification and strategic autonomy. The next European Commission is set to take the initiative to the next level by further packaging the investment with trade policy measures and macro-economic support (i.e. budget support) (von der Leyen, 2024).