{"id":4837,"title":"This is Your Wake-up Call\u2026 EUROPE!","link":"https:\/\/bst-europe.eu\/de\/globalization\/berlin-roundtable\/","date":"16. November 2015","date_unix":1447678833,"date_modified_unix":1447678833,"date_iso":"2015-11-16T13:00:33+00:00","content":"
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The Global Economic Dynamics <\/a>(GED) team\u00a0and the Representation of the European Commission in Germany <\/a>will bring together top panelists from several high-profile institutions to discuss Europe\u2019s trade and investment policy, in a high-level roundtable. The session will be held on the 27th<\/sup>\u00a0November at 10:00 CET in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Guest speakers will include Viviane Reding<\/strong> (EP<\/a>, INTA-Committee), Richard <\/strong>K\u00fchnel<\/strong> (European Commission, Berlin<\/a>), Matthias Machnig<\/strong> (State Secretary for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy – to be confirmed) and Dr. Ulrich Schoof<\/strong> (Senior Project Manager, Shaping Sustainable Economies Program in the Bertelsmann Stiftung<\/a>). The discussion will have Bertelsmann Stiftung\u2019s CEO, Art De Geus<\/strong>, as moderator.<\/p>\n

Recent developments, such as the refugees\u2019 crisis and the negotiations involving TTIP \u2013 a potentially ground-breaking trade agreement between the EU and the USA \u2013 have made European trade policy the focus of much public debate. Therefore, questions such as How can that work for an \u201cisolated\u201d community policy if the other relevant fields are not community policies?<\/em> arise.<\/p>\n

In its new \u201ctrade for all\u2026\u201d trade and investment strategy, the EU Commission is now testing this balancing act.<\/p>\n

Can it succeed by using a new approach?<\/p>\n