Annual Meeting - Europe: the way ahead

Europe, the way ahead will be on the focus of this year’s Bruegel annual meeting. In the fall and after the European election, a new leadership will come into office. It will be time to reflect on the next steps Europe should take to overcome its weak growth performance; to re-invent its institutions and the collaboration process among them; to address the remaining banking problems; and also to revive the debate on the constitution and legitimacy of Europe.

At the annual meeting, we would like to have an open and frank debate. High-level representatives of Bruegel's state;corporate and institutional members will gather;on 4-5 September in Brussels;to discuss the economic issues that will shape Europe under the new leadership and in the context of new global challenges.

September 4 (on the record)

• 19.00 - Welcome drinks

• 19:30 - Bruegel annual dinner
  • Chair: Jean-Claude Trichet, Bruegel chairman
  • Dinner keynote: Finance Minister Mateusz Szczurek, Poland

September 5 (day under Chatham house rules)

• 8.30-8.40 - Welcome speech by Guntram Wolff

• 8.40-10.30 - First panel: “How to address the global and European growth challenges?”
  • Chair: Zsolt Darvas, Bruegel Senior Fellow
  • Panel:
    • Agnès Benassy-Quéré, Executive president CAE and Professor, France
    • Hubert Penot, EMEA CIO, Metlife
    • Huw Pill, Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs
    • Ludger Schuknecht, Director General, Finance Ministry, Germany

• 10.30-11.00 - Coffee break

• 11.00-13.00 - Second panel: “Europe's banking landscape: next steps”
  • Chair: Rachel Lomax, Bruegel Board Member
  • Panel:
    • Filippo Altissimo, Tudor
    • Stephan Leithner, Chief Executive Officer Europe (except Germany and UK), Human Resources, Legal & Compliance, Government & Regulatory Affairs, Deutsche Bank
    • Danièle Nouy, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the single supervisory mechanism, ECB
    • Marco Pagano, Professor, University of Naples Federico II

• 13.00-14.00 - Lunch

• 14.00-14.30 - Keynote Sergei Guriev, Professor Science Po: “Europe and its neighbourhood: back to stability?”

• 14.30-16.30 - Third panel: “Further institutional challenges for the EU and the euro area”
  • Chair: Jean Pisani-Ferry, Commissioner for Strategy and Policy, France
  • Panel:
    • Håkan Jonsson, Senior Consultant, Hallvarsson & Halvarsson
    • Daniela Schwarzer, Glienicker Gruppe
    • József Szájer, Member of European Parliament

Practical information

• Venue: The Hotel, Boulevard de Waterloo 38, 1000 Brussels
• Date: 4&5 September 2014
• Contact: Matilda Sevón, Events Manager - [email protected]