Pivotal EU-GCC summit set for Riyadh
The EU and GCC have begun to recognize that their interests are now interconnected and not merely complementary (File/AFP)
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The second EU-Gulf Cooperation Council summit, scheduled to be held in Riyadh in the autumn of 2026, comes at a critical moment in international affairs. What began as a historically underdeveloped relationship between two neighboring economic and geopolitical blocs is rapidly evolving into one of the most strategically consequential partnerships of the emerging multipolar era. If the inaugural EU-GCC summit in Brussels in October 2024 symbolized the opening of a new chapter, the second summit in Riyadh comes at a moment where both sides need to transform political ambition into sustained strategic cooperation.
