{"id":15794,"date":"2025-11-21T11:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/eu-to-take-positive-steps-to-making-international-financing-architecture-representative\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:53","slug":"eu-to-take-positive-steps-to-making-international-financing-architecture-representative","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/eu-to-take-positive-steps-to-making-international-financing-architecture-representative\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to take positive steps to making international financing architecture representative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa says the European Union (EU) is taking positive steps to making international financing architecture more inclusive, efficient and representative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He says the intention is to ease the debt burden that prevents developing countries from investing in their own future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He was responding to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s call for global investments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The remarks were made under the EU&#8217;s Global Gateway initiative to be structured in a way that empowers African countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH | European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa says the partnership with SA is based on mutual respect, adding that they are fully in support of the SA&#8217;s G20 priorities. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kM5Qe7hArL\">pic.twitter.com\/kM5Qe7hArL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SABC News (@SABCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SABCNews\/status\/1991538534155444567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15795,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-15794","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Costa says EU is taking positive steps to making international financing","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19882,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15794\/revisions\/19882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}