Ing. Jozef Síkela

One thing is clear: development cooperation is not an ideological matter. It is a strategic investment into global stability and we must treat it acco...

Díky @CT24zive a @reznickova_t za možnost promluvit o dnešním hlasování o nedůvěře Evropské komisi a o dalších zásadních evropských tématech. ct24.ce...

It is in our 🇪🇺 strategic interest to support international development. Yesterday in @Europarl_EN, we discussed the outcome of the Financing for Dev...

Chtěl bych ocenit výkon paní magistry, hejtmanky a senátorky. Zaprvé za to, že v pouhých devatenácti vteřinách se jí mistrně podařilo vystihnout kv...

⚽ Africa and Europe: Together we rise! The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations has kicked off in Morocco and we 🇪🇺 are proud to be there as a partner. Why...

What does it mean? 🔹 Guarantees reduce risk for investors, unlock capital for high-impact sectors, and reduce costs to partners. 🔹 Blending combines...

This way, we support investments in clean energy, infrastructure, digital technologies, health, education, or jobs. This is an essential part of Glo...

With Global Gateway we are turning sustainable finance tools into real-world impact. Let’s see how 👇 We use innovative financial tools like guarantee...

We also launched ResilientRemit together with @IFAD. For millions of households, remittances are a vital part of their monthly budget. This initiative...

With the @EIB, we celebrated the signature of a €20 million loan to Mauritania’s Bank El Amana. It will support projects in the blue economy, with a...

In Sevilla, important was focus in particular on mobilising private capital to scale up our development impact. Because turning limited public budgets...

The concrete agreements we signed at the Financing for Development Conference in Sevilla clearly demonstrate the scope and versatility of Global Gatew...

On the occasion of Kwibohora 31, I would like to wish HE President Kagame, yourself, Minister @onduhungirehe, and all Rwandans, a happy Liberation Day...

With development funds becoming scarcer, we must act smarter to generate the impact the world needs. In 🇪🇸 Sevilla, I highlighted four priorities: 🔹 ...

🇪🇸 Sevilla 2025 - After ten years, the world meets again to boost sustainable development efforts. Together with my team, we are reinforcing the EU’s...

The goal is to build strategic partnerships that deliver benefits for both. Because investment in development is a strategic investment in global st...

Reliability. Stability. Impact. These are the pillars of our 🇪🇺 Global Gateway and the focus of my intervention at today’s roundtable on revitalising...

As the world is becoming more transactional and the uncertainity rises, the need for smart, impactful investment into sustainable development grows. ...

Hedging Currency Risk helps us overcome the fact that currency volatility holds back investment and economic growth. We step in to protect both borro...

Guarantees make loans more affordable, offering lower interest rates. ✅ Today, we signed a €75 million guarantee with @COFIDES to scale off-grid rene...

By de-risking investments, we unlock projects that would otherwise never happen. Under the 🇪🇺 Global Gateway, we use innovative financing mechanisms t...

Digital connectivity is not a given. In many parts of the world, it remains a privilege. Europe is ready to help close this digital gap. In high-inco...

Today, together with Finland and Nokia, we presented how Global Gateway is investing in secure, trusted digital infrastructure - fibre, satellites, da...

Shared values. Shared ambitions. Shared opportunities. That is the foundation of our EU–CELAC partnership. Today’s high-level dialogue with @AgendaCA...

Two years ago, we mapped 130 investment projects under our EU–LAC Global Gateway Agenda. Today, more than 80 are moving forward - from clean energy an...

Important bilateral meeting with Minister of Finance Nogui Acosta Jaén. We discussed Costa Rica’s ambitious plan to modernise and electrify public tra...

On our agenda: ✅ Showcasing the EU’s development leadership ✅ Promoting Global Gateway as a key tool to mobilise investment for the Sustainable Devel...

I am off to my first meetings in 🇪🇸 Sevilla! The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development comes at an important time of growing glob...

Good evening from 🇪🇸 Sevilla! Tomorrow, I begin my programme here with a clear objective: to strengthen 🇪🇺 Europe’s global development leadership at ...

These projects will: 🔹 Deliver clean electricity to local communities 🔹 Support sustainable development and energy security 🔹 Strengthen the grid for...

Tajikistan holds Central Asia’s greatest untapped hydropower potential and today, we 🇹🇯 🇪🇺 have unlocked it together. We are launching two major Glob...

🔹 With 🇬🇧 UK Minister for International Development, Baroness @JenniyChapman, we explored how to make development finance smarter, more agile, and bet...

🔹 With 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s Minister of Health @muhammadpate, we discussed how to unlock local health value chains and drive strategic investment into vaccine...

In a time of overlapping challenges - from climate change to conflict and inequality - the international community must act together to find lasting s...

🔹I also had a productive meeting with Catherine Russell, Executive director of @UNICEF. We exchanged ideas on strengthening our collaboration to suppo...

We 🇪🇺 are already investing in projects that strengthen local vaccine production across Africa - including in countries like Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal ...

GAVI stands among the world’s most impactful global health partnerships. It has helped vaccinate over 1.1 billion children and save more than 18 milli...

Strong health systems are the foundation of sustainable development. That’s exactly why GAVI’s mission matters. Today, I reaffirmed Europe’s commitme...

Global health is a key priority of our 🇪🇺 Global Gateway strategy. Why? Because access to healthcare is a universal right. Because pandemics know no ...

Probrali, jak zajistit, aby naše 🇪🇺 rozvojové aktivity posílily naše vztahy s důvěryhodnými partnery po celé světě. Zdůraznil jsem, že naše iniciati...

Takto posilujeme i globální zdravotní systémy. Na naší schůzce s Billem Gatesem jsme se zaměřili na to, jak lépe sladit rozvojové aktivity EU a @gates...

🌍 Čelíme zásadním výzvám, jako je klimatická změna, mezinárodní konflikty či rostoucí nerovnosti a mezinárodní rozvojová spolupráce je důležitější než...

🌍 With many pressing challenges to global stability - from climate change and conflict to rising inequality - the need for international development c...

This is also how we strengthen global health systems. In our bilateral meeting, we discussed how to better align EU and @gatesfoundation efforts - to ...

We discussed how to turn our development efforts into stronger partnerships around the world. I stressed that our 🇪🇺 Global Gateway is about creating ...

We are delivering concrete digital projects enhanced by a human-centred approach. This way we make sure that technology serves people. We combine tr...

Strengthening Europe’s Digital Offer Through strategic, human-centred investments Too many people still lack access to fast, secure digital networks....

By reducing risk and improving bankability, the Fund acts as a catalyst to mobilise private capital, boosting our impact and accelerating investments ...

Global Gateway is 🇪🇺 Europe’s value-based strategy for the more competitive world. The more I travel, the more meetings I have, the clearer one thing...

Zbavit se dodávek ruského plynu do Evropy je v našem 🇪🇺 bezpečnostním, strategickém i ekonomickém zájmu. I díky zásadnímu příspěvku Česka se nám pod...