The EU-Central Asia friendship is solidified with the €12 billion #GlobalGateway Investment Package for:
🚛 Transport Corridors enabling trade and connectivity
🧪 Creation of raw material industries boosting local autonomy
🔋 Clean energy independence for Central Asia and faster global clean transition
📡 Internet access via European satellites in this landlocked region
These are exciting times for Europe and Central Asia.
Our Strategic Partnership is a commitment to be there for each other.
@EUCommission This is with Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Details at https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/eu-central-asia-trade/
@soaproot I'm pretty sure at least some of these are brutal dictatorships.
Why, @EUCommission, why?
@guenther @soaproot @EUCommission Having too many ties with other dictatorships makes it hard for democracy to sprout. Dictators like to help each other with surveillance, propaganda and protest suppression. Having more ties with democratic countries might help.
