News

The European Commission and EU Member States, as Team Europe, pledged today to invest €313 million in 'Education Cannot Wait', the United Nations global fund that helps reach vulnerable crisis-affected children with immediate and longer-term education support.

Commissioner for International Parnterships Jutta Urpilainen will travel on 8 February to Nepal for an official one-day visit to meet Nepali leaders and launch several EU actions in the country.

L’Union européenne et le territoire français d’outre-mer (PTOM) de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ont signé aujourd’hui une convention de financement pour soutenir le secteur du tourisme durable.

Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen launched today a Regional Teachers' Initiative in Africa and for Africa, a €100 million investment from the EU budget in empowering the world's fastest growing youth population through quality education.

Ahead of the International Day of Education on 24 January, the European Commission and High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell made a joint statement.

The European Commission has signed a contribution agreement with the European Space Agency to build a national Copernicus data centre in the Philippines, the first of its kind in South-East Asia.

On 24-25 January, Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, and Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, will visit Southern Africa to enhance ties between the EU and Namibia and mark the 33rd anniversary of the EU-Namibia Partnership.

In 2020, coinciding with the beginning of the pandemic, which had a dramatic impact on trade, the EU and its Member States collectively invested €23 billion in Aid for Trade. A wide variety of EU Aid for Trade programmes have been put in place to assist partner countries in facing the recovery.

EU Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen will speak today, 10 January, at the Annual Conference of Spanish Ambassadors. As the EU Commissioner for International Partnerships, Ms Urpilainen oversees the European Commission’s work on international cooperation.