Past Event
Bruegel Annual Meetings 2018
The 2018 Annual Meetings will be held on 3-4 September and will feature sessions on European and global economic governance, as well as finance, energy and innovation.
VIDEO RECORDINGS
The Annual Meetings are Bruegel’s flagship event. They offer a mixture of large public debates, lectures and invitation-only sessions about key issues in European and global economics. In a series of high-level discussions, Bruegel’s scholars, members and stakeholders will address the economic policy challenges facing Europe.
Download the conference booklet here.
The sessions on the first day will be livestreamed starting at 9:00 on this page. It is not necessary to register to watch the livestream.
NOTE THAT THIS REGISTRATION GIVES YOU ACCESS ONLY TO THE DAYTIME SESSIONS ON 3 SEPTEMBER. The dinner and second day is open only to Bruegel members and a small number of selected invitees.
Schedule
08:30-09:00
Registrations and welcome coffee
09:00-10:30
WHICH ECONOMIC PRIORITIES FOR EUROPE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS?
Chair: Guntram B. Wolff, Director
Jointly organised with the Financial Times
Panel
Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director
Lowri Evans, Director-General of DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs - European Commission
Martin Sandbu, Economics commentator, Financial Times
Johan Van Overtveldt, Minister of Finance, in charge of Combating Tax Fraud, Belgium
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-13:00
EUROPE’S GEOSTRATEGIC POSITIONING IN A VOLATILE WORLD
Chair: Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior Fellow
Panel
Carl Bildt, Co-Chair of European Council on Foreign Relations and former Prime Minister of Sweden
Dominique Moïsi, Senior Adviser, Institut Montaigne
Ana Palacio, Member of Council of State of Spain and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag
Maria Åsenius, Head of Cabinet to Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade
13:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:45
THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF DECARBONISATION
Chair: Georg Zachmann, Senior Fellow
Barbara Botos, Deputy State Secretary for Climate Policy, Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Hungary
Benjamin Denis, Advisor, ETUC
Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, Schneider Electric
14:45-15:45
ACADEMIC LECTURE: THE MISTHINKING OF GLOBALISATION
Chair: André Sapir, Senior Fellow
Richard E. Baldwin, Professor of international economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
15:45-16:15
Coffee break
16:15-17:15
THE FUTURE OF EUROPE’S FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Chair: Rachel Lomax, Member of the Board
Joanne Kellermann, Former Member, Single Resolution Board
Jean Pierre Mustier, CEO, Unicredit
18:30-22:00
ANNUAL DINNER (for Bruegel members and selected guests)
Welcome and chair
Guntram B. Wolff, Director
Introduction
Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Chair of the Scientific Council
Keynote speech
Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President, European Commission
The speech will be livestreamed.
22:00
End
(for Bruegel members and selected guests)
08:45-09:15
Registrations and welcome coffee
09:15-10:45
EURO AREA REFORM: FINISHING THE JOB?
Chair: Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow
Jörg Kukies, Member of the board
Philippe Lespinard, CIO – Fixed Income, Schroder Investment
Thomas Wieser, Non-resident fellow
Lucrezia Reichlin, Professor of Economics at London Business School
10:45-11:15
Coffee break
11:15-12:45
EUROPE’S DIGITAL ECONOMY AND SOCIETY STRATEGY
Conversation
Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
Reinhilde Veugelers, Senior Fellow
12:45-13:30
Lunch
13:30
End
Speakers
Maria Åsenius
Head of Cabinet to Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade
Richard E. Baldwin
Professor of international economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Carl Bildt
Co-Chair of European Council on Foreign Relations and former Prime Minister of Sweden
Barbara Botos
Deputy State Secretary for Climate Policy, Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Hungary
Maria Demertzis
Deputy Director
Benjamin Denis
Advisor, ETUC
Lowri Evans
Director-General of DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs - European Commission
Mariya Gabriel
European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
Svend E. Hougaard Jensen
Chair of the Scientific Council
Joanne Kellermann
Former Member, Single Resolution Board
Jörg Kukies
Member of the board
Emmanuel Lagarrigue
Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, Schneider Electric
Philippe Lespinard
CIO – Fixed Income, Schroder Investment
Rachel Lomax
Member of the Board
Dominique Moïsi
Senior Adviser, Institut Montaigne
Jean Pierre Mustier
CEO, Unicredit
Ana Palacio
Member of Council of State of Spain and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jean Pisani-Ferry
Senior Fellow
Lucrezia Reichlin
Professor of Economics at London Business School
Norbert Röttgen
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag
André Sapir
Senior Fellow
Johan Van Overtveldt
Minister of Finance, in charge of Combating Tax Fraud, Belgium
Martin Sandbu
Economics commentator, Financial Times
Margrethe Vestager
Executive Vice-President, European Commission
Reinhilde Veugelers
Senior Fellow
Nicolas Véron
Senior Fellow
Thomas Wieser
Non-resident fellow
Guntram B. Wolff
Director
Georg Zachmann
Senior Fellow
Location & Contact
Katja Knezevic
[email protected]
