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South Africa is the EU's largest trading partner in Southern Africa and has a FTA with the EU. South Africa's main exports to the EU are fuels and mining products (27%), machinery and transport equipment (18%) and other semi-manufactured goods (16%). However they are growing and becoming more diverse. European exports to South Africa are ...
The Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG International Partnerships or DG INTPA) is the European Commission department responsible for international development policy. [1] It operates under the authority of the European Commissioner for International Partnerships , currently Jozef Síkela .
The major sources of funding for ESASTAP are the European Commission, through the Seventh Framework Programme, and the South African Department of Science and Innovation. In the 2020/2021 financial year, the department received official development assistance (ODA) from the European Union of R5 000 000 [ 2 ] over a three-year period, earmarked ...
The EEAS merged the Commission's Directorate-General for External Relations (and various other departments) with its counterparts in the Council of Ministers. The responsible Commissioner for the service is the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles in his role as Commission Vice-President.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in South Africa. There are 134 embassies and high commissions in Pretoria, and many countries maintain either an embassy, high commission or consulate in Cape Town and consulates in other major cities. Trade missions and honorary consulates are omitted from this listing.
The member states of the European Union are aligned in their foreign policy on many issues. The EU is the world's largest economic union, customs union and donor of humanitarian and development assistance and thus has an extensive network of delegations around the world mainly operating in the framework of External Relations, for which the European Commission is the main decision body.
South Africa Pretoria: Sandra Kramer 2022 Roeland van de Geer (2010–2014); Marcus Cornaro (2014–2018); Dr Riina Kionka (2018–2022) South Korea Seoul: Maria Castillo Fernandez 2020 Tomasz Kozłowski (2011–2015); Gerhard Sabathil (2015–2017); Michael Reiterer (2017–2020) South Sudan Juba: Timo Olkkonen 2022
The European Commission organized a video conference of world leaders on 4 May 2020 to raise funds for COVID-19 vaccine development. US$8 billion was raised. [97] The European Commission issued a new multi-year data plan in February 2020 pushing the digitalization of all aspects of EU society for the benefit of civic and economic growth.