{"id":467522,"date":"2026-10-09T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/09\/sikela-mobilitare-piu-investimenti-privati-per-lagenda-allo-sviluppo\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:16:39","slug":"sikela-urges-greater-private-investment-for-the-development-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/09\/sikela-urges-greater-private-investment-for-the-development-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00eckela urges greater private investment for the development agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cThe development agenda has seen its budget cut by more than 23 per cent year-on-year,\u201d and \u201cwe cannot bridge this gap with public funds alone,\u201d said<\/a> the European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jozef S\u00edkela<\/strong>, at a press briefing on the sidelines of the informal meeting of EU development ministers held today (9 October) in Dublin, Ireland. <\/p>\n

According to the Commissioner, we should instead \u201cuse public money to mobilise greater private investment\u201d. An example? \u201cThrough the Team Europe approach, we have managed to mobilise investments of over 300 billion euros in connectivity, sustainable development, and job creation in partner countries,<\/strong>\u201d he explained.  In addition to Team Europe, the Commissioner noted that at the last United Nations General Assembly in September, the Global Green Bond Initiative was also launched, to generate \u2013 starting with 1 billion in public funds \u2013 up to 20 billion euros in investment in sustainable infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Team Europe<\/a> is an approach through which the European Union, its Member States (including implementing agencies and public development banks), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) pool their resources, expertise and policies to deliver stronger and more effective external action. The Global Green Bond Initiative is one of the latest projects launched under this framework, to mobilise up to 20 billion euros in private capital for sustainable investments and green infrastructure in emerging markets and developing economies. This is a vision \u201cshared by many of our strategic allies and partners who share our values, such as Canada, the United Kingdom and Norway,\u201d S\u00edkela stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cThe development agenda has seen its budget cut by more than 23 per cent year-on-year,\u201d and \u201cwe cannot bridge this gap with public funds alone,\u201d said the European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jozef S\u00edkela, at a press briefing on the sidelines of the informal meeting of EU development ministers held today (9 October) in Dublin, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":467475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,25774],"tags":[25871,25927,29582,26614,31353,27931,35217,27637],"class_list":["post-467522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-in-brief","tag-canada-en","tag-aid-for-development-en","tag-global-gateway-en","tag-jozef-sikelaon","tag-norway-en","tag-palazzo-berlaymont","tag-kingdom-united-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467523,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467522\/revisions\/467523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}