Past Event
Europe and India: Comparing Approaches to Global Economic Challenges
Stakeholders from government, private sector, media and academia/institutions come together to review India-EU relations and point to a promising direction for the future.
video & audio recordings
15 December
Assessing Global Strategic Environment and Identifying Avenues of Cooperation
15 December
International trade relations in the emerging global economic order
16 December
India-Europe engagement on Climate Change
16 December
Addressing common challenges of digital transformation and promoting rule-based global data governance
India and Europe share common interests in dealing with global economic challenges including those related to the Covid-19 pandemic, the crisis of the trading system, climate change and the digital transformation. They also share and shape the global geopolitical environment within which these challenges are unfolding.
The purpose of this webinar will be to compare the approaches of Europe and India to some of these common challenges and assess how far they converge or contrast with each other and what can be done to increase convergence through both multilateral and bilateral initiatives.
India and the European Union are both strong supporters of multilateralism and a rules-based global order, and influential actors in multilateral fora such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Paris Agreement. They are also strategic partners and their Leaders have endorsed at the 15th EU-India Summit held in July 2020 the “EU-India Strategic Partnership: A Roadmap to 2025” as a common roadmap to guide joint action and further strengthen the EU-India Strategic Partnership over the next five years.
The webinar will consist of four virtual sessions, each 90 minutes long, led by two panelists, one Indian and one European. All four sessions will be co-chaired by Amb Shyam Saran of CPR and Andre Sapir of Bruegel. The sessions will be on following topics:
- Strategic Environment
- Trade
- Climate Change
- Digital Transformation
The objective of these sessions is to foster deeper conversations between Indian and European stakeholders. To this end, the session will aim to be as interactive as possible, inviting lively engagement from participants. Participants will include serving and retired government officials as well as representatives of the private sector, media and think tanks/academia.
This is event is organised in cooperation with the Centre for Policy Research (CPR).
Schedule
11:30-11:40
Opening and Introductory Remarks
Yamini Aiyar, President, Centre for Policy Research
Guntram B. Wolff, Director
11:40-13:10
Assessing Global Strategic Environment and Identifying Avenues of Cooperation (Dec 15)
Chair: André Sapir, Senior Fellow
Chair: Shyam Saran, Senior Fellow, CPR
Alicia García-Herrero, Senior Fellow
Gautam Mukhopadhaya, Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR
14:00-15:30
International trade relations in the emerging global economic order (Dec 15)
Chair: André Sapir, Senior Fellow
Chair: Shyam Saran, Senior Fellow, CPR
Ignacio Garcia Bercero, Director Neighbouring countries, USA & Canada, DG TRADE
Rajat Kathuria, Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER
11:30-13:00
India-Europe engagement on Climate Change (Dec 16)
Chair: André Sapir, Senior Fellow
Chair: Shyam Saran, Senior Fellow, CPR
Navroz K Dubash, Senior Fellow, CPR
Simone Tagliapietra, Senior Fellow
14:00-15:15
Addressing common challenges of digital transformation and promoting rule-based global data governance (Dec 16)
Chair: André Sapir, Senior Fellow
Chair: Shyam Saran, Senior Fellow, CPR
Ananth Padmanabhan, Visiting Fellow, CPR
Georgios Petropoulos, Non-resident Fellow
15:15-15:30
Concluding Remarks
Suman Bery, Non-resident Fellow
Speakers
Yamini Aiyar
President, Centre for Policy Research
Suman Bery
Non-resident Fellow
Navroz K Dubash
Senior Fellow, CPR
Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Director Neighbouring countries, USA & Canada, DG TRADE
Alicia García-Herrero
Senior Fellow
Rajat Kathuria
Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER
Gautam Mukhopadhaya
Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR
Ananth Padmanabhan
Visiting Fellow, CPR
Georgios Petropoulos
Non-resident Fellow
André Sapir
Senior Fellow
Shyam Saran
Senior Fellow, CPR
Simone Tagliapietra
Senior Fellow
Guntram B. Wolff
Director
Location & Contact
Katja Knezevic
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