IIEAEttore Greco, Executive Vice President of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Italy’s leading think tank on foreign affairs.
EU27 Past Events
State Secretary Iztok Mirošic addressed the policy priorities on which the EU will have to focus in the future.
The Eurozone crisis, and the period leading up to it, brought to light some fundamental flaws in the architecture of the single currency and highlighted the need for essential reforms, such as the Banking Union.
As part of the IIEA's Future of the EU27 Project, Dr Nathalie Tocci, lead penholder of the EU Global Strategy, briefly traced the origins of the 2016 EU Global Strategy and followed this up with a discussion of her current work on implementing the Strategy, notably in the field of security and defence.
As part of the IIEA’s project on Ireland and the Future of the EU27, Ann Linde, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs and Trade, and Helen McEntee T.D., Irish Minister for European Affairs, addressed the Insitute to present their governments’ perspectives on the Future of the EU27 post Brexit. In their speeches, each Minister outlined the vision for the EU in their countries, and discussed areas of potential policy alignment betwen Ireland and like-minded countries, such as Sweden.
The seminar entitled: Delivering the Digital Single Market, covered a range of issues associated with completing the Digital Single Market, including the free flow of data (the so-called Fifth Freedom), E-governance and cooperation in the Digital North. The event was co-hosted by the IIEA, the Estonian Embassy to Ireland and the Norwegian Embassy to Ireland.
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