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