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EUROPEAN
COMMISSION
Brussels, 16.7.2025
SWD(2025) 553 final
COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT
Accompanying the document
Proposal for a
REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
establishing Global Europe
{COM(2025) 551 final} - {SEC(2025) 548 final} - {SWD(2025) 552 final}
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KOM (2025) 0551 - SWD-dokument
Europaudvalget 2025
Executive summary
This Staff Working Document constitutes the Impact Assessment accompanying the proposal
for the next external financing instrument Global Europe in view of the Multiannual Financial
Framework post-2027.
The EU operates in an environment marked by geopolitical rivalry, geoeconomic competition,
and multiple crises, posing challenges of unprecedented magnitude. To navigate these
challenges, the EU needs to enhance its external financing instruments, balancing predictability
with flexibility. The baseline assessment of current instruments, i.e. NDICI-Global Europe, the
Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance III as well as the Ukraine, Western Balkans and
Moldova facilities, indicates their effectiveness but also reveals architectural weaknesses,
which are further exposed in an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment. These
weaknesses stem from their insufficient adaptability to a rapidly changing world and a lack of
coherence in advancing the EU’s strategic interests.
To address these issues, the impact assessment proposes three specific objectives: 1) provide
adaptability and stability by striking the right balance between programmable and
unprogrammable actions, 2) increase responsiveness by simplifying the architecture of the
instruments, 3) advance policy coherence and the EU’s strategic interests by creating and
updating tools. These objectives are further qualified in sub-objectives.
Three options, varying in their approach to flexibility and predictability of the Union action,
have been designed for the purpose of this impact assessment to compare how they would
advance the above specific objectives in relation to the baseline, while assessing the options’
economic, social and environmental impacts.
Based on the analysis of impacts and comparison to the baseline, option 2 emerges as the
preferred choice. It provides benefits by simplifying regulatory frameworks, enhancing the
efficiency and adaptability of resource allocation and by fostering policy coherence, thereby
supporting the EU's strategic interests, long-term objectives as well as more short-term goals
and crisis response effectively and efficiently. Option 2 would keep Ukraine-related support,
including both pre-accession and reconstruction, over and above the MFF ceilings, thereby
allowing to provide credible support to Ukraine while ensuring the external financing’s overall
efficiency in pursuing strategic objectives in other geographic areas.
This qualitative assessment strategically outlines the potential for enhanced EU external action
under a merged external financing instrument.
The open public consultation organised in 2025 and the independent study underpinning the
mid-term evaluation constitute the main evidence of the impact assessment.