EU to grant Türkiye $322.8M in 2025-27 to boost country's competitiveness
Financing to focus on green, digital transformation, promoting basic rights, and efforts in environment, energy, transportation, education, employment, and competitiveness, says deputy head of EU Delegation to Türkiye
ISTANBUL
The EU will provide $322.8 million in grants to Türkiye in 2025-2027 via the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) funding mechanism to boost the competitiveness of Turkish enterprises.
Jurgis Vilcinskas, deputy head of mission of the EU Delegation to Türkiye, told Anadolu that the bloc provided over €780 million ($812.2 million) to support Türkiye’s green transformation and that it will continue to support the green and digital transformations in the coming days.
The grant will focus on key areas of basic rights, environment, energy, transportation, education, employment, and competitiveness.
Vilcinskas said that the grant will enable Turkish firms to transform into environmentally friendly and sustainable businesses and boost their competitiveness, while giving support to the country’s digital and green transformation efforts.
As for President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on the EU, Vilcinskas said that because the US is one of the bloc’s largest trading partners, they would rather avoid disruptions in trade, and made no further comments.
