The localisation of the EU’s Global Gateway
CIVEX-VIII/007
The localisation of the EU’s Global Gateway
THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS (CoR)
- welcomes the Global Gateway (GG), as the EU’s flagship international investment strategy essential for responding to complex global challenges and enhancing the EU’s role as a strategic, values-based global actor; to that end, the GG should reinforce governance and capacity beyond national governments and the private sector and further engage at subnational level;
- points out that local and regional governments (LRGs) play a key role in implementing the Global Gateway by ensuring democratic participation, local ownership and sustainable outcomes, including in fragile settings; recognises that there are already several positive examples of LRG involvement in GG projects that need to be scaled up and structurally anchored at the heart of the GG;
- observes that decentralised cooperation offers a mechanism for mutual learning, institutional strengthening and transfer of know-how, which aligns with the values and priorities of the EU;
- calls on the Commission and the EEAS to formally recognise LRGs – both in the EU and in partner countries – as strategic actors in shaping, implementing, governing and monitoring the GG; proposes that the Commission issue a new Communication on the role of LRGs in development cooperation;
- urges the inclusion of LRGs in the formal governance of the GG at EU level, beyond their current limited participation in the Advisory Platform, and in partner countries; requests that EU delegations be given the tools and resources needed to engage with LRGs, including through increased coordination with associations of LRGs and with the UN system;
- urges the EU to integrate decentralised cooperation as a recognised modality; recommends the allocation of a dedicated budget line for LRGs and decentralised cooperation in the post-2027 MFF;
- recommends channelling direct financing to subnational governments to strengthen fiscal decentralisation and provide predictable support for local public investment aligned with the SDGs.
- welcomes the Global Gateway (GG), as the EU’s flagship international investment strategy essential for responding to complex global challenges and enhancing the EU’s role as a strategic, values-based global actor; to that end, the GG should reinforce governance and capacity beyond national governments and the private sector and further engage at subnational level;
- points out that local and regional governments (LRGs) play a key role in implementing the Global Gateway by ensuring democratic participation, local ownership and sustainable outcomes, including in fragile settings; recognises that there are already several positive examples of LRG involvement in GG projects that need to be scaled up and structurally anchored at the heart of the GG;
- observes that decentralised cooperation offers a mechanism for mutual learning, institutional strengthening and transfer of know-how, which aligns with the values and priorities of the EU;
- calls on the Commission and the EEAS to formally recognise LRGs – both in the EU and in partner countries – as strategic actors in shaping, implementing, governing and monitoring the GG; proposes that the Commission issue a new Communication on the role of LRGs in development cooperation;
- urges the inclusion of LRGs in the formal governance of the GG at EU level, beyond their current limited participation in the Advisory Platform, and in partner countries; requests that EU delegations be given the tools and resources needed to engage with LRGs, including through increased coordination with associations of LRGs and with the UN system;
- urges the EU to integrate decentralised cooperation as a recognised modality; recommends the allocation of a dedicated budget line for LRGs and decentralised cooperation in the post-2027 MFF;
- recommends channelling direct financing to subnational governments to strengthen fiscal decentralisation and provide predictable support for local public investment aligned with the SDGs.
