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RSSThe President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen convened the first meeting of the Global Gateway Board today. The meeting highlighted the progress that has been made in the first year of implementation of Global Gateway with the target of mobilising €300 billion of investments by 2027
The European Commission has signed a contribution agreement with the European Space Agency to build a regional Copernicus centre in Panama, the first of its kind in the context of EU external relations.
Today, the Commission adopted a new EU Global Health Strategy to improve global health security and deliver better health for all in a changing world. With the Strategy, the EU deepens its leadership and reasserts its responsibility for tackling key global challenges and health inequalities head-on.
As part of the Team Europe initiative on manufacturing and access to vaccines, medicines and health technologies in Africa Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen has signed a letter of intent with African Union Development Agency – NEPAD to contribute to the two main African institutions for public health.
Today, African Union and European Union Commissions engaged on their strategic partnership and reviewed progress in the implementation of the joint commitments taken at the 6th EU-AU Summit in February 2022.
Today, in Mombasa, Kenya and the European Union in the presence of Kenyan President William Ruto inaugurated the first section of an upgraded 560km highway along the Northern corridor, East Africa's busiest trade and transport route.
Today, High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell co-hosted the EU-Central Asia Connectivity Conference for Sustainable Development in Samarkand where he announced the launch of two EU Global Gateway flagship initiatives on Water, Energy and Climate, and on Digital Connectivity.
Today at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, the EU and the African Union announced a new Team Europe Initiative on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience in Africa as part of the EU-Africa Global Gateway Investment Package.
In the context of the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Sharm-El-Sheikh (Egypt), the EU and EU member states have announced a Team Europe Initiative (TEI) Green Paraguay.
Today, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, on behalf of the EU, signed five Memoranda of Understanding for a Forest Partnership with Guyana, Mongolia, the Republic of Congo, Uganda and Zambia.