Event

Resilient growth: Aligning productivity and security

This event hosted by UK think tank the CER discusses how the EU can reconcile the goals of boosting productivity with increasing security and resilience.

The EU has embarked on an important but difficult balancing act. Its openness to the outside world has boosted growth for decades. At the same time, to respond to geopolitical risks, the EU needs to address harmful dependencies to enhance security and resilience. As law-makers negotiate the next 7-year budget, including its European Competitiveness Fund (ECF), the Union needs to identify how to reconcile, or minimise conflicts between, the goals of boosting productivity on the one hand and increasing security and resilience on the other hand. 

This event will launch a CER policy brief by Zach Meyers and Aslak Berg, written with support from Swedish Enterprise, proposing a framework to ensure that the ECF helps to diversify trade, boost private investment and enhance economic security by giving the best projects the right kind of support at the right time.

Introductory remarks: Anna Stellinger, Deputy Director General, Head of International & EU Affairs, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

Speakers

Aslak Berg – Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform
Zach Meyers – Director of Research, Centre on Regulation in Europe & Associate Fellow, Centre for European Reform
Lotta Nymann-Lindegren – Director, EU Affairs, Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK)
Maive Rute – Deputy Director-General, Investment & Innovation, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs, European Commission
Yannick Treige – Senior Manager, European Government Affairs, ASML

Please email brussels@cer.eu for further information, including how to register.