This week, the EU Commission yet again invited leaders from the so-called 'Global South' to Brussels to promote its Global Gateway following years of unclarity and underperformance.
"This is truly a credibility test," said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borell at the end of the two-day event on Thursday (26 October). "Last year, I said that in 2023, we will need to over-deliver instead of over-promise. We need to promise less and deliver more."
The plan was launched in 2021 as an...
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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.