Past Event

INVITATION ONLY | Private discussion with Jozef Síkela, EU Commissioner for International Partnerships

Mon. April 28, 2025 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm !Address to be provided to invited guests New York City

EACCNY is organizing a dinner discussion with Commissioner Síkela whose task is to ensure that the EU builds long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with its international partners.

GUEST OF HONOR:

Jozef Síkela is the Commissioner for International Partnerships. He ensures that the EU builds long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with its international partners for our prosperity, resilience and security.

 



He is responsible for:

• making the Global Gateway programme a trusted and quality brand throughout the world by accelerating the EU’s offer to its partners, including on infrastructure investment, measuring its impact and building its global profile


• building on the Team Europe approach, mobilising resources from EU countries, public development or investment banks and development finance institutions, export credit agencies, and the private sector


• leading the EU’s engagement in all just transition partnerships to help partner countries decarbonise the power sector


• ensuring the EU promotes the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals


• strengthening EU partnerships and deepening cooperation with Africa, Central Asia, Asia and the Indo-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean


• supporting a differentiated approach regarding Least Developed Countries by focusing more effectively on their specific vulnerabilities, as well as for conflict areas and fragile countries


• promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the EU’s international cooperation and development policies

 

 

This event is organized in collaboration with the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations.

 

 

TIME:
7:00 – 7:15 PM Arrival | 7:15 – 8:45 PM Dinner and Discussion | 8:45 - 9:00 PM Networking

 

 

REGISTRATION:
This is an invitation-only event.