Jozef Síkela

Responsibilities

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

Read more about the EU’s Global Gateway programme and international partnerships. 

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Transparency

Meetings and missions

As part of the Commission's commitment to transparency, Commissioners and their Cabinet members publish information on and minutes of all meetings they hold with interest representatives. Every two months, they also publish an overview of mission expenses.

• Meetings with Commissioner Síkela
• Meetings with Commissioner Síkela's Cabinet members
• Missions of Commissioner Síkela

European Parliament hearings

Read Commissioner Síkela's answers to the European Parliament questionnaire.

Declaration of interests

In line with the Commission's Code of Conduct for Members of the Commission, each Member of the Commission publishes a declaration of interests. The declarations of the Commissioners-designate can be found on the European Parliament’s website, where they were published before the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners. 

The declarations of interests of the new Members of the Commission will be updated and published here at the beginning of 2025 in line with Article 3 of the Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission. Machine-readable versions of all declarations will also be made available in line with the requirements of the Code of Conduct. The declarations of interests follow the requirements set out in Article 3 and Annex 1 of the Code of Conduct for Commissioners.