The Global Gateway vs the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative

Exclusive Fellow Sessions

4pm-5pm, 25th May 2023

In this fellow session, we will discuss the European Union’s Global Gateway in congruence with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The Global Gateway is a strategy aiming to link the world through infrastructure, education, standardization, and values pertaining to the EU. This session will also shed light on China’s influence through the BRI in EU candidate states, particularly Serbia, and what this could mean for EU enlargement policy. Moreover, we will delve into Global Gateway’s shortcomings and ways the EU can improve the initiative to be competitive in global development and embody a more significant presence worldwide.

Moderated by Lana Pedisic and Richard Kraemer

Richard Kraemer is the President of the US-Europe Alliance and has extensive experience in managing programs in Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. He previously worked at the Center for International Private Enterprise and taught law at Jagiellonian University in Poland. He is affiliated with the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Public International Law and Policy Groups, where he advised governments of Georgia and Montenegro.

Lana is a Research Fellow at the Young Security Conference and a Junior Research Fellow at the International Development Research Network. She focuses on the European Foreign and Security Policy, EU Enlargement Policy, Belt and Road Initiative in Europe, EU-China, and EU-Taiwan relations. She holds a Master’s in Global Security and Strategy from the Brussels School of Governance and a Bachelor of Science in International Business from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Recommended literature

These are not required for the workshop, but are designed for those who are interested in reading further on this topic: