What is the #GlobalGateway Africa – Europe Investment Package?
It is all about supporting Africa for a strong, inclusive, green and digital recovery and transformation.
#TeamEurope – the EU and EU countries, will support concrete and transformational project in priority areas.
We will invest in projects with concrete objectives for the green transition.
This includes:
🔷 increasing the renewable energy generation capacity by at least an additional 300 GW,
🔷 protecting biodiversity by stabilising 3 million km² of land.
The #GlobalGateway Africa – Europe Investment Package will boost investments in regional and continental economic integration, promote sustainable growth and decent job creation.
Unlocking additional financing for sustainable transitions will be key to achieving our common ambition.
The financing of the #GlobalGateway Africa-Europe Investment Package includes bilateral aid, and both grants and loans.
The #GlobalGateway is our strategy to boost smart, clean and secure links in digital, energy and transport and also strengthen health, education and research systems across the world.
Securing Europe’s supply chains is not optional. It’s essential.
We've launched a new approach to economic security to cut dependencies, protect critical tech.
Unprecedented economic security threats - from war in Ukraine to unfair competition - demand unprecedented answers ↓
Our new approach delivers two major steps forward:
🔹 A strategic Economic Security framework to make smarter, more coordinated use of EU tools to protect critical technologies, secure supply chains, attract safe investment and safeguard sensitive data. ↓
🔸 RESourceEU, the first concrete action under this approach, ensuring access to alternative sources of critical raw materials and semiconductors for European industry.
Europe is working to turn its ambition into reality.
In last year, we’ve been working for a stronger, greener, and more competitive Europe. ↓
🔸Cheaper energy
🔸Less admin burdens
🔸Better investment opportunities
🔸More AI
🔸Support to boost Europe's clean tech
🔸Trade deals to provide more certainty for business and consumers
Our actions this year supported a more competitive and prosperous Europe.
At the same time:
→ We are making Europe more secure
→ We are steadfast in our solidarity with Ukraine
→ We uphold European democracy and values
→ We equip our Union with an ambitious budget, fit for the future
→ We complete our Union
→ We work for peace and prosperity
What if the next big AI breakthrough came from Europe?
Today we announced an ambitious AI Continent Action Plan to make this happen ↓
Our plan includes:
🏭 13 AI Factories to drive innovation, connecting universities, startups, industry, and policymakers. These hubs will bring together top talent, high-quality data, and powerful computing.
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🚀 The EU will also set up AI Gigafactories with 100,000 state-of-the-art AI chips – four times more than current AI factories.
📊 Data Labs will curate large, high-quality data.
🎯 We are launching the Apply AI Strategy to boost industrial use in EU sectors.