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The EU's Global Gateway: Creating links, not dependencies
The European Union looks to working with Singapore on connectivity projects in South-east Asia as part of its strategic initiative.
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Europe’s offer to partner countries to address infrastructure investment needs is financially, socially and environmentally sustainable connectivity.
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Josep Borrell and Jutta Urpilainen
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Earlier this year, the European Union and Brazil inaugurated a new fibre-optic cable to carry terabytes of data faster and more securely between our two continents. This helps scientists in Europe and Latin America to work together on issues from climate modelling to disaster mitigation.
The cable starts in the EU, where its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became the gold standard of data protection, and ends in Brazil, which recently introduced a similar law. The cable links two continents together, building a data economy that respects the privacy of its citizens' data. This is how Europe approaches connectivity - bringing partners together without creating unwanted dependencies.
