EU Development Policy
The European Union and its Member States are collectively the world’s biggest donor for development. Yet, their commitments for development finance in the transport sector are marginal. The EU Global Gateway initiative has been launched to promote global infrastructure investments that create sustainable transport networks and to re-position Europe as a global infrastructure financier.
EIC liaises with the EU Commission and with European financial institutions in the Global Gateway Business Advisory Group and brings the expertise and experience of its members to the development policy debate.
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EIC Position on the new external financing instrument NDICI
European international contractors have a long-standing record of delivering infrastructure projects in Africa, but had to progressively reduce their market presence over the past two decades due to the unlevel playing field in the competition with ...
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EIC at the EU Transport Connectivity Task Force
Working Group Africa Chairman Christian Combes represented EIC at the EU Transport Connectivity Task Force on 25 July 2019. ...
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EIC Memo on Correcting the unlevel Playing-Field
At the 5th Meeting of the Thematic Group on International Competitiveness in March 2018 in Brussels, which operates in the context of the "Construction 2020" Action Plan, EIC called upon European policy-makers to recalibrate the competitive framework ...
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UN Sustainable Development Agenda
In 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — replacing the 2000 Millennium Development Goals — came into force. With these new Goals that universally apply to all countries will mobilise over ...
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Africa's Infrastructure Market
Africa has been and will be in the future a unique partner for Europe for historical, geographical and cultural reasons. Even in an ever-globalising world, the European Union and its Member States collectively remain Africa's most important partner ...
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