The EU’s Global Gateway Strategy:
Towards Strengthening Win-Win Partnerships Worldwide

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3 July 2024 (Wednesday)
11:30-13:00

The Polish Institute of International Affairs

1A Warecka Street, 00-950 Warsaw

Conference room, 1^st floor

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On 3 July 2024, PISM and the Department of Economic Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organised the debate “The EU’s Global Gateway Strategy: Towards Strengthening Win-Win Partnerships Worldwide”. The conference provided an opportunity to discuss the current state of play of the implementation of Global Gateway in light of other international actors’ offers.

The Global Gateway (GG) strategy, which was announced in December 2021,  is the European Union’s offer to partner countries to accelerate their twinned green and digital transitions, offering smart, clean, and secure links in the digital, transport, energy, and climate-relevant sectors, and strengthening education, research, and health systems and networks. It develops investment packages with and for partner countries in a 360-degree approach, leveraging private sector investments in hard infrastructure and nurturing partner countries’ economic enabling environment. Global Gateway aims to mobilise up to €300 billion in investments across the world between 2021 and 2027.

The debate focused on how to reconcile the EU’s geostrategic and international partnerships goals with Global Gateway, fostering the EU’s positive offer of cooperation for its partners worldwide, and how to increase the involvement of Member States’ financial institutions and the private sector. The conclusion was that while GG was met with interest by EU partners, a lessons learnt include the need to have more high-scale strategic projects and to improve communication about EU engagement in particular countries. With respect to Africa, for example, the challenge remains the limited trust towards EU investment due to the historical experience of colonialism. If it comes to increasing the participation of Polish entities in GG realisation, a precondition is the creation of a Team Poland approach.

Programme

11:30–11:40    Welcome remarks
 

• Justyna Szczudlik, Deputy Head of Research, The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)
• Beata Jaczewska, Director of the Economic Cooperation Department, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

11:40–13:00    Panel discussion
 

• Luc Bagur, Director for Sustainable Development Policy and Coordination, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission
• Elżbieta Kaca, Senior Research Fellow, The Polish Institute
  of International Affairs (PISM)
• Dominik Kopiński, Senior Advisor, World Economy Team, Polish Economic Institute
• Karol Tofil, Director of International Partnerships Office, Department for International Development Instruments, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
  
  Moderator: Jolanta Szymańska, Head of the EU Programme, The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

13:00-14:00   Lunch