Global Gateway in Africa: Europe’s Answer to China’s Belt and Road

The European Commission’s Global Gateway initiative will turn three years old in December. The $300 billion infrastructure initiative was launched with great fanfare to provide developing countries in Africa and elsewhere with an alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Many European stakeholders also hoped that Global Gateway would catalyze a new EU foreign policy agenda for Africa, which many critics contend is now unmoored.

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by Eric Olander

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