The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the shared frailty of societies
in the face of common threats. If the world is to respond successfully to future pandemics
and other emerging challenges, it will be essential to develop new public health instruments
and a framework that redefines the rules of global governance. In many ways, a quantum
lift in global health is needed similar to that achieved at the turn of the 21st century.
That was a time when new multilateral initiatives with innovative governance and financial
arrangements were established (eg, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in 2000, The Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in 2002, and adoption of the WHO Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control in 2003), and development assistance for health expanded
at an unprecedented rate.
(Own report) - With an infrastructure initiative worth up to €300 billion, the EU attempts to compete with China s New Silk Road (Belt and Road Initiative, BRI). The initiative named "Global Gateway" was officially presented last Wednesday after bumpy preparations that were widely criticized as largely inadequate. It is intended to provide finances for the construction of roads, railways and digital links – infrastructure projects worldwide to be mainly undertaken by companies from EU countries. The pressure on Brussels to launch the initiative has recently increased. Despite temporary difficulties due to the Corona crises, the BRI has been quite successful with 142 countries participating so far. Only those powers in rivalry with Beijing are not participating – the USA, the leading West European countries (except Italy), Australia, India, Japan. Observers, however, are skeptical, because no concrete Global Gateway project has yet been named and significant portions of
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