The European Union is in direct geoeconomic or security conflicts with major powers on all sides – China, the US, and Russia being the prime counterparts. In these conflicts, economics have acquired an unprecedented role due to the increasingly open weaponisation of economic interdependences and the power of markets. The global economic order is re-configuring, and the EU and its members look for ways to use their economic clout to shape the contours of the emerging order in their image. Do they have the tools to succeed?
Věra Jourová, former European Commission (EC) Vice-President for Values and Transparency, will deliver the keynote on digital sovereignty for the EU, while Tomáš Petříček, former Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, will offer his reflections on the position of European states in the global geoeconomic turmoil. Researchers from the Horizon-Europe consortium ENSURED and from the Institute of International Relations (IIR), Prague, will explore key policy areas that intersect with the EU's economic policies in global cooperation and conflicts in trade, taxation, climate, and the digital transformation.
Schedule:
15:00: Introduction and welcome
- Mats Braun (Director, IIR)
- Michal Parízek (IPS FSV UK)
15:10: Keynote by Věra Jourová, former EC VP for Values and Transparency
- Title: "Digital Sovereignty for the EU: News Frontier of Political and Economic Competition"
- Q&A moderated by Daniel Šitera (IIR)
16:00: Coffee break
16:20: Panel I – EU Economic Playbook and Disrupted Multilateral Cooperation
- Federica Marconi (IAI Rome): Global digital governance, regulation of cyberspace
- Tomáš Boukal (IES FSV UK): EU and global tax competition
- Jan Karlas (IPS FSV UK): EU and global climate mitigation and finance
- Michal Parízek (IPS FSV UK): EU and the shock to the global trade regime
- Moderator: Barbora Chaloupková, Deník N
17:20: Panel II – Czechia and Europe amid Geopolitical Turmoil
- Tomáš Petříček, former Czech MFA
- Moderator: Barbora Chaloupková, Deník N
17:40: Conclusion and reception
This ENSURED dissemination event is held in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations (IIR) in Prague. For more on ENSURED's work on economic policy, check out our research publications.
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