Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/10/2025
08:45 - 11:00
Location
Press Club Brussels Europe
Categories
On 9-10 October, the second Global Gateway Forum will be held in Brussels. Organised by the European Commission, it promises to be a carefully stage-managed success story with little space for the civil society perspective, despite the major implications for the EU’s development and energy policy.
One year after the launch of the report “Who profits from the Global Gateway? The EU’s new strategy for development cooperation, and on the eve of the Forum, ActionAid EU, CONCORD Europe, Counter Balance and Eurodad are organising an event to discuss the real implications of the Global Gateway strategy.
The panel will include voices from civil society in the Global South and the European Parliament. This will provide an alternative to the official narrative, spotlighting the impacts of energy, mining, climate and infrastructure projects on the ground.
Speakers
- Frank Vanaerschot, Director, Counter Balance
- Kaisha Atakhanova, Director of Regional Programs, ARGO
- Hikma Bachegour, Ph.D in Environmental Economics Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University Fez, Morocco and representative of MENAFem
- Veronica Fadzai Zano, Regional Program Advisor-Extractive Industry, Oxfam Southern Africa (online)
- Udo Bullmann MEP, Socialists and Democrats (online)
- Magnus Guldberg, Permanent Representation of Denmark to the European Union, Embassy Secretary & Chair of the Working Party on Global Gateway
- Jean Saldanha, Director, European Network on Debt and Development – Eurodad
Moderated by Shada Islam (commentator on EU affairs)
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Read the report “Who profits from the Global Gateway? The EU’s new strategy for development cooperation”