On Global Gateway -– past impacts and future orientation
A-10-2026-0045
Committee on Foreign Affairs Committee on Development · Rapporteur: Chloé Ridel, Hildegard Bentele
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- Full procedure 2025/2073
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The resolution assesses the Global Gateway strategy and calls for reforms to make it more demand-driven, transparent, and accountable, with a stronger role for the European Parliament and partner countries.¶¶¶ It urges the Commission to improve project selection, monitoring, and reporting, and to ensure that projects respect development goals, human rights, and environmental standards.¶¶¶ It calls for codifying Global Gateway in the next Global Europe regulation and for better coordination with EU policies and international partners.¶¶¶
Committee position. The committees propose a resolution that calls for a comprehensive reform of Global Gateway, emphasizing a demand-driven, transparent, and accountable approach with stronger parliamentary oversight and partner country involvement.¶¶¶
Key points
- Calls for a shift from a top-down to a demand-driven approach, aligning projects with partner countries' priorities and ensuring inclusive, accountable development.¶¶¶
- Demands that Global Gateway projects not benefit entities undermining EU security or economy, including sanctioned firms or state-controlled rivals, and calls for investigation of Chinese companies' involvement.¶¶
- Urges the Commission to establish clear methodologies for assessing development impact and ODA eligibility, and to report regularly to Parliament.¶¶
- Calls for strengthening the Global Gateway Council as the central operational body, with more frequent meetings and a stronger role for Parliament and partner countries.¶¶¶
- Requests improved transparency and communication, including public, up-to-date information on projects, tenders, and funding, and a coherent communication strategy.¶¶¶
- Calls for better support for SMEs, local authorities, and civil society in Global Gateway projects, including streamlined processes and dedicated funding segments.¶¶¶
- Urges that projects respect debt sustainability, avoid creating debt traps, and support debt relief and restructuring for developing countries.¶
- Calls for integrating gender equality, children's rights, and disability inclusion into all Global Gateway projects.¶¶¶
- Emphasizes the need for projects to contribute to local value creation, job creation, and sustainable development, with monitoring of local impacts.¶¶¶
- Calls for aligning Global Gateway with EU trade policy, including clean trade and investment partnerships, and for ensuring coherence with WTO rules.¶¶
- Urges the Commission to ensure that EU and like-minded companies have operational control over projects and to define strategic procurement criteria.¶¶¶
- Calls for codifying Global Gateway in the next Global Europe regulation (2028-2034) to ensure legal certainty and democratic oversight.¶¶
Who is affected
- European and partner country businesses, especially SMEs, will see new opportunities but also stricter eligibility and procurement rules.¶¶¶
- Partner countries' governments and local authorities will be more involved in project design and decision-making.¶¶¶
- Civil society organizations, including women's and disability groups, will have a stronger advisory role.¶
- The European Parliament will gain a stronger oversight role in Global Gateway governance.¶¶
- Chinese companies may face restrictions if they are found to undermine EU interests.¶
Figures and deadlines
- 306 billion euros mobilized by end of 2024, according to the Commission.¶
- Over 250 flagship projects approved since 2022.
- 23% of the world's population lives in fragile conditions.¶
- 4 trillion USD annual investment gap for SDGs in developing countries.¶
- 0.7% of gross national income committed to ODA by EU and member states.¶
- At least 93% of NDICI-Global Europe spending must meet ODA criteria.¶
- Less than 10% of flagship projects in 2023-2025 focused on education and research; slightly over 10% on health.¶