Global Gateway
Advancing European Capital at the Expense of People and Planet

Launched in 2021, the European Commission’s Global Gateway Programme is billed as the EU’s contribution to narrowing a purported annual $1.3 trillion “global investment gap” in infrastructure financing. In aiming to mobilise private sector funding for the “digital, energy and transport sectors,” the programme furthers the Trumpish doctrine that bigger powers have natural “spheres of influence” whose constituent countries are there to service the imperial centre and work to its rules.

To challenge the Global Gateway Programme, environmental and social justice movements will need to build new alliances in Europe and internationally, particularly with labour, that not only recognise the programme's imperialism but also build countervailing practices and ways of living that support the collective right of all (rather than just the few) to dignified survival.

This short article, published by Counter Balance, a Brussels-based organization campaigning on public finance institutions, outlines what is at stake.

https://counter-balance.org/news/global-gateway-advancing-european-capit...