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Working Better Together in a Team Europe Approach

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Last Updated: 05 December 2025
A tool to help EU Delegations work better together with Member States as Team Europe and with like-minded partners and country stakeholders, through Team Europe Initiatives, joint programming and joint implementation.

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1.3. The value of a Team Europe approach

The Global Gateway strategy, the Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy (the global strategy) and the European Consensus make a strong case for working better together at partner- country level. The advantages of joint programming, TEIs and joint implementation, including for the identification and facilitation of Global Gateway investments, and the lessons learned from them, are summarised here so that they can be adapted for use in the Team Europe approach.