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Global Gateway -– past impacts and future orientation

TA-10-2026-0104 · P10_TA(2026)0104 · PE776.922

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Parliament's resolution on the Global Gateway assesses its past impacts and future orientation, calling for reforms in governance, transparency, and development effectiveness. It demands stronger parliamentary involvement, a demand-driven approach, and codification of the Global Gateway into the Global Europe regulation. It prioritises investments in energy, critical raw materials, and the green transition, while ensuring alignment with poverty reduction and partner country needs. It calls for improved monitoring, evaluation, and transparency, including on funding, procurement, and project impacts.

Key points

  1. Recalls that the Global Gateway is a strategic geopolitical concept aiming for long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships, shifting from donor-recipient to equal footing.
  2. Notes the lack of clarity on the EUR 306 billion mobilised and calls for transparent methodologies to assess development impact and ODA compliance.
  3. Calls for the Global Gateway to offer a sustainable, transparent alternative to initiatives by China and Russia, and for an investigation into Chinese companies' involvement in projects.
  4. Stresses that projects must be inclusive, aligned with partner countries' strategies, and respect local ownership, with involvement of civil society and local actors.
  5. Emphasises the need for investments in energy, critical raw materials, and digital sovereignty to reduce dependencies, while ensuring benefits reach local communities.
  6. Calls for continued support for health, education, and agriculture, and for fragile contexts to receive tailored investment, without diverting ODA from essential sectors.
  7. Urges measures to avoid worsening debt in developing countries, including debt relief and swaps, and to address access to financing.
  8. Recommends revising governance to give Parliament a meaningful role, make the Board operational, and ensure regular reporting to Parliament.
  9. Calls for improved transparency in project selection, funding, and procurement, and for the publication of standardised statistics on implementation.
  10. Demands that Global Gateway be codified into the Global Europe regulation before the next multiannual financial framework, with a bottom-up approach.
  11. Calls for procurement to use environmental, social, and governance criteria, and for eligibility criteria ensuring EU and like-minded companies retain operational control.
  12. Stresses the need for synergies with trade policy, including trade facilitation and alignment with WTO rules, and for screening projects for security risks.

Who is affected

  • EU institutions, especially the Commission and Parliament, will see changes in governance and oversight of the Global Gateway.
  • Partner countries and local stakeholders, including civil society and SMEs, are to be more involved in project design and implementation.
  • European and local SMEs face barriers to participation; the resolution calls for streamlined processes and dedicated financial windows.
  • Chinese companies are targeted for investigation regarding their involvement in Global Gateway projects.
  • Multilateral development banks, including the EIB, must adhere to high transparency and accountability standards.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 306 billion mobilised by the end of 2024, according to the Commission.
  • Over 250 flagship projects endorsed by the Council since 2022.
  • Less than 10 % of flagship projects for 2023-2025 address education and research, and a little over 10 % focus on health.
  • At least 93 % of expenditure under NDICI-Global Europe must fulfil ODA criteria.
  • USD 4 trillion per year is the SDG investment gap in developing countries.

Legal basis: Article 21 of the Treaty on European Union; Articles 208 and 322(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union