{"id":150600,"date":"2021-12-03T19:54:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=150600"},"modified":"2021-12-11T17:39:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:09:23","slug":"eu-plans-e300-billion-infrastructure-fund-to-counter-chinas-bri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/eu-plans-e300-billion-infrastructure-fund-to-counter-chinas-bri\/","title":{"rendered":"EU plans \u20ac300 billion infrastructure fund to counter China\u2019s BRI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European Commission has announced an international infrastructure plan called the &#8220;Global Gateway Plan\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Global Gateway Plan?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-150602 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ggp.jpg?resize=563%2C460&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ggp.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ggp.jpg?resize=300%2C245&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plan aims to invest \u20ac300 billion<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0($340 billion) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">globally in infrastructure, digital and climate projects by 2027. This will help <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">strengthen health, education and research systems across the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investment will be made in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">projects that can be delivered with high standards, good governance, transparency while ensuring financial sustainability at the same time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>How will the Global Gateway Plan be implemented?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Plan will be implemented in a Team Europe approach that brings together funding by the EU, its Member States and European financial institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plan will also require<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> buy-ins from international institutions and the private sector as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of the Global Gateway Plan?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Firstly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Plan is considered as an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">offshoot of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/b3w-an-alternative-to-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build Back Better World(B3W) Initiative.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the plan is being seen as a European effort to challenge China&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/belt-and-road-initiative-bri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Belt and Road Initiative <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which was launched in 2013 and funds infrastructure projects in the developing world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>EU plans \u20ac300 billion infrastructure fund to counter China\u2019s BRI<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 2nd December 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The European Commission has announced an international infrastructure plan called the &#8220;Global Gateway Plan\u201d.\u00a0 What is the Global Gateway Plan? The plan aims to invest \u20ac300 billion\u00a0($340 billion) globally in infrastructure, digital and climate projects by 2027. This will help strengthen health, education and research systems across the world.\u00a0 The investment&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/eu-plans-e300-billion-infrastructure-fund-to-counter-chinas-bri\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU plans \u20ac300 billion infrastructure fund to counter China\u2019s BRI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[456,10533,10498],"class_list":["post-150600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-eu","tag-global-gateway-plan","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700508804},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}