Programme

Europe in the Crossroads: Risks and Prospects

DYNAMICS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Pavilion G, Conference Hall G6

The European Union is going through tough times. The anaemic recovery from the 2008 financial crisis has combined with new challenges – including Brexit, the migration crisis, and a chilling in relations with Russia – to test the very fabric of the European Union body politic. Do Europe’s leaders have the vision and political mandate to manage these systemic challenges? How should business and investors navigate the fault lines in the EU?

Moderator:
Peter Lаvelle , Anchor, RT

Panellists
Emmanuel Babeau , Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Schneider Electric
Markus Beyrer , General Director, BusinessEurope
Yaroslav Lissovolik , Chief Economist, Member of the Management Board, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)
Gerard Mestrallet , Chairman of the Board of Directors, ENGIE Group
Peter Szijjarto , Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary
Jean-Pierre Thomas , President, Thomas Vendome Investment


Jim Rogers , Chairman, Beeland Interests Inc
Liv Monica Stubholt , Chairman of the Board, Norwegian-Russian Chamber of Commerce; Partner, Law Firm Selmer

Broadcast

Key moments

New leadership between Germany and France can bring Europe to the next level. That is what people are expecting.
Emmanuel Babeau
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Schneider Electric
What we’ve been learning with the sanctions is that when you start to put barriers to the business between Russia and Europe it creates bad consequences for the two zones.
Emmanuel Babeau
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Schneider Electric
If we were able to increase the commercial link, develop the business that would increase the benefits of the participants instead of sanctions.
Emmanuel Babeau
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Schneider Electric
EU has to reinvent itself and one of the issues here in terms of reinvention is the relationships with the outside world and with Russia.
Yaroslav Lissovolik
Chief Economist, Member of the Management Board, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)
If you look on Eurasian Economic Union, it has been modelled on EU. Therefore, clearly there is a need to be more engagement and more interaction between these two blocks.
Yaroslav Lissovolik
Chief Economist, Member of the Management Board, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)
Russians want a strong and prosperous EU because it is a great trading partner.
Yaroslav Lissovolik
Chief Economist, Member of the Management Board, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)
We have to admit that sanctions have failed both politically and economically. We lost 6.5 billion dollars of export opportunities during sanctions.
Peter Szijjarto
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary
Now we can see the rise of the populism everywhere in Europe and around the world. We have had the Brexit. The Brexit is the real crossroad.
Gerard Mestrallet
Chairman of the Board of Directors, ENGIE Group