In September 2017, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD), which is the core piece of the EU's new External Investment Plan (EIP). The intention of the EIP is to support more inclusive and ...

The EU Commission has proposed a new Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-27 amounting to € 1.85 trillion. ...

EIC welcomes the new EU Global Gateway Strategy as a positive signal to EU partners, however, delivery model for transport infrastructure needs refinement.

The EIC Autumn Workshop 2020 „The Role of Infrastructure Investments in the EU-Africa and EU-Asia Strategies and related EU External Financing Instruments“ took place in form of a Webinar on 02 October 2020.

This years´ EIC Autumn Workshop was organised in a digital format on 02 October 2020. More than 100 participants joined the webinar on “The Role of Infrastructure Investments in the EU-Africa and EU-Asia Strategies and related External Financing ...

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 ...

On 23 September 2025, EIC President Gustavo Martínez and EIC Director Frank Kehlenbach participated in the Autumn Plenary Meeting of the Global Gateway Business Advisory Group (BAG) in Brussels, chaired by the Director-General of DG INTPA, Koen Doens.

Working Group Africa Chairman Christian Combes represented EIC at the EU Transport Connectivity Task Force on 25 July 2019. ...

On 23 February 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD) which has the objective to anchor human rights and environmental considerations in companies’ operations and corporate ...

EIC and FIEC call on the EU Council and the European Parliament to reject the result from a provisional agreement on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D), which aims to enhance the protection of the environment and human rights...

"The access of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOE) to EU public procurement markets has become an active issue again" says FIEC President Kjetil Tonning and continues, "Considering that China excludes foreign contractors from domestically financed ...

Global Gateway Initiative officially launched at the EU Africa Summit, entailing an investment portfolio of 150 bn EUR.