Parliament members ask if the companies will be excluded from the Global Gateway Business Advisory Board ‘within the context of de-risking from China’.
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Last month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed a group of businesses that had been enlisted to help the bloc's flagship infrastructure programme, the Global Gateway. The new business advisory board would "help us to work closer together and deliver faster on the green and digital transitions, boosting the economy of our partners and the EU", von der Leyen said. But close inspection of the list of board members reveals that the EU has invited Chinese state-linked companies
EU has launched Global Gateway as a belt-and-road alternative, but project’s advisers include EDP of Portugal, whose largest shareholder is China Three Gorges, a state-owned enterprise
A member of the European Parliament, MEP Miriam Lexmann has called for the release of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a Nigerian whose death penalty over alleged blasphemy is currently being challenged at the Supreme Court. Lexmann from the European People’s Party (EPP) parliamentary group, who co-hosted the event in the European Parliament for the abolition of blasphemy laws, also advocated for the end of persecution of religious minorities in Nigeria. “Nobody should be punished because of their faith, let alone be executed for it," he said.