The Five Freedoms Project’s European Think Tank Summit: Which Way Forward for the Single Market?
Europe’s single market and its founding freedoms are under strong pressure at a time when there is a great need for Europe to deepen and expand its single market.
Its contribution of economic growth and political cooperation in Europe is uncontested, but the European economy has changed profoundly since the birth of the single market and many new areas of growth are only partially part of the single market. New reforms also put the light on the single market’s contribution to jobs and economic opportunity, not least because the social effects of the crisis remain dire in many countries. What should be the vision for the single market? What can be done to challenge the rise of economic and political populism – and use single market reforms to improve economic opportunity across the EU? What economic reforms are needed to underpin an expanded single market?
Programme
14:15 Welcome
14:20 Keynote by Anna Diamantopoulou, President of TO DIKTIO and former European Commissioner and Minister for Competitiveness in Greece,
14:50 Next steps for Single Market Reforms, Kamil Kiljanski, Chief Economist at DG Growth
15:20 Break
15:40 Panel: Building a Single Market in Europe: What Reforms are Needed?
Fredrik Erixon, Director, Five Freedoms Project
Jürgen Matthes, Senior Economist, Cologne Institute for Economic Research
Renaud Thillaye, Deputy Director, Policy Network
Pawel Zerka, Head of Foreign Policy and International Affairs Research Program, WiseEuropa (former Demos Europa)
17:15 Deepening and Expanding the Single Market, Vicky Ford, Chairman of IMCO, European Parliament
17: 30 End
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