The Global Gateway, the EU’s global connectivity strategy, is two years old this week. Chloe Teevan and San Bilal look at how the strategy can make real progress towards operationalising a much-needed reorientation of EU international cooperation objectives and instruments to meet partners’ needs and to respond to geostrategic realities.
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An African battery value chain to kickstart green industrialisation
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Green industrialisation: Leveraging critical raw materials for an African battery value chain
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Two years into South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership: How real is the deal?
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Addressing the military carbon footprint at COP28
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The new EU development policy shifts in practice: Views from Kenya and Cameroon
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The Global Gateway at two: Implementing EU strategic ambitions
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Episode 2 - Why is it difficult to engage boys and men in the fight for gender equality?
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Podcast series 'Minding the gap: conversations on gender'
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Episode 1 - Are we critical enough of gender expertise?
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Trouble in paradise: The EU-Africa partnership in a geopolitical context
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