The vice president of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, and UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin have renewed the European Commission-UEFA Arrangement for Cooperation, which first entered into force in 2014. They met on Oct. 6 at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.
According to UEFA, this latest institutional agreement, which provides a roadmap for joint efforts up to 2025, will take the partnership “to new levels,” the sport governing body said in a statement. The agreement explicitly reaffirms the European Commission and UEFA’s commitment to protect and strengthen the European Sport Model, “based on European values, solidarity between elite and grassroots levels, sporting merit, an open system of promotion and relegation and the protection of the physical and moral integrity of sportsmen and sportswomen.”
The agreement marks a strengthening of the collaboration towards using European football as a force for positive change across Europe. The focus is on a joint commitment to promoting solidarity between professional and grassroots football, the ongoing development of the women’s game, fairness, integrity, financial sustainability, competitive balance, gender equality and good governance. Joint efforts will be intensified across relevant UEFA events and competitions, notably the men’s and women’s Champions League and European Championships, including a strategic focus on the men’s Euro 2024 in Germany and Women’s Euro 2025.
