{"id":138241,"date":"2025-03-14T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/president-von-der-leyen-in-south-africa-launches-talks-on-a-new-trade-and-investment-deal-unveils-e4-7-billion-global-gateway-package\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:40:10","slug":"president-von-der-leyen-in-south-africa-launches-talks-on-a-new-trade-and-investment-deal-unveils-e4-7-billion-global-gateway-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/president-von-der-leyen-in-south-africa-launches-talks-on-a-new-trade-and-investment-deal-unveils-e4-7-billion-global-gateway-package\/","title":{"rendered":"President von der Leyen in South Africa: launches talks on a new trade and investment deal, unveils \u20ac4.7 billion Global Gateway package"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138241\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>On thursday, President Ursula von der Leyen and President Ant\u00f3nio Costa are at the EU-South Africa Summit in Cape Town to strengthen Europe&#8217;s strategic partnership with the country. During the Summit, Europe and South Africa agreed to start talks on a new generation of trade deals \u2014 a Clean Trade and Investment Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa will be the first country to sign such an agreement with the EU. It will focus on investment, the clean energy transition, skills, and technology, and on developing strategic industries along the entire supply chains \u2013 thus creating good jobs in Africa. The leaders also agreed to extend their cooperation to critical raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>To kick-start this new chapter in EU-South Africa relations, President von der Leyen announced a Global Gateway Investment Package worth \u20ac4.7 billion. The biggest bulk of the package \u2013 \u20ac4.4 billion \u2013 will be invested in projects supporting a clean and just energy transition in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This presents a significant pledge in the context of the Scaling up Renewables in Africa campaign, launched by President von der Leyen and President Ramaphosa in the margins of the G20 Summit in Rio. Partnering with Global Citizen and backed by the International Energy Agency, the campaign will culminate with a major pledging event in the margins of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Gateway package also focuses on connectivity infrastructure \u2013 both physical and digital\u2013 and on boosting the local pharmaceutical industry. You can follow the press conference with President von der Leyen, which will start at 15:40 CET, live on EBS. Her press statement will be available here.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_25_774\">European Commission<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/president-von-der-leyen-in-south-africa-launches-talks-on-a-new-trade-and-investment-deal-unveils-e4-7-billion-global-gateway-package\/\">President von der Leyen in South Africa: launches talks on a new trade and investment deal, unveils \u20ac4.7 billion Global Gateway package<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[698,555,3040],"class_list":["post-138241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","tag-csr-news-en","tag-von-der-leyen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}