Creating Growth and Jobs for a New Era

Musical Chairs: Europe in the New Global Economy

January 16, 2024
13:00–13:45 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

The EU remains the second largest single market in the world and has maintained its competitiveness by championing free trade, fair competition and a rules-based system. However, with massive structural shifts in the global economy framed by discussions of strategic autonomy and further accelerated by rapid technological advancements, is the EU at risk of falling ever further behind other...
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Speakers

BG
Belen Garijo
Chair of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer
Merck
MW
Martin Wolf
Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator
Financial Times

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