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Implementation of the Global Europe Instrument: First steps - Ϸվ's scrutiny role

Uitgebreide analyse 30-11-2022

Most of the 'programming documents' (multiannual indicative programmes and annual or multiannual action plans) for cooperation with EU partner countries and regions under the new Global Europe Instrument are now in place. A new session of the high-level geopolitical dialogue between the Commission and the Ϸվ took place on 8 November 2022. In a post-pandemic context and a volatile security environment marked by a devastating war at its eastern borders, the EU's multiple worldwide cooperation partnerships are all the more necessary and vital for the EU itself. This EPRS paper aims at analysing the main policy features and the Global Europe Instrument's high potential, with a focus on the way in which it is implemented today, through the first programming documents that came to fruition in December 2021. It also examines how the Ϸվ can make the most of the instrument, including through geopolitical dialogue and delegated acts, to add a stronger democratic dimension to scrutiny of the instrument's implementation.