The 2025 Tech Summit explores the upcoming challenges and the necessary actions for the EU to bolster its technological sovereignty while enhancing its competitive edge globally. The topic of achieving a balance between innovation and regulation by empowering the EU to harness digital diplomacy and shape international technology governance has been a key focus. Along…
The Westin Warsaw, Al. Jana Pawła II 21, 00-854 Warsaw, Poland.
·ECFR Rome
ECFR is organizing a series of closed-door workshops in the framework of the project “Towards an Open, Free and Global Internet” funded by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and in partnership with Italian foreign policy magazine Formiche. After a first meeting on the content layer of the internet, which was held in Rome in June…
The Hotel Brussels, Boulevard De Waterloo 38, Brussels, Belgium
·ECFR Rome
The internet has upended the world order. The exercise of power and governance in the digital sphere has become a major source of geopolitical contestation. At the heart of this competition lay technical standards, which can define what kind of values and visions will technologies embed. But while the EU uses standards to regulate the…
Bocconi University, Via Antonio Nibby, 20, Roma
·ECFR Rome
Si tratta del quinto appuntamento di una serie di working lunch realizzati congiuntamente da ECFR Roma, SDA Bocconi e l’Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University
In an increasingly tech-driven world, Europe wants to impose its voice among the global leaders in the field. To secure a technological influence, much work has already been done at the European level, focusing mainly on the concept of European technological sovereignty (ETS), in tandem with European strategic autonomy (ESA). However, to effectively compete with digital…
El European Council on Foreign Relations organizó un debate público el jueves, 31 de octubre de 11:00 a 13:00 h en Casa de América con el objetivo de profundizar en la agenda de cooperación tecnológica y digital entre la Unión Europea y América Latina y el Caribe. En este debate público se identificaron oportunidades de…
OnlineVia del Quirinale 26, 00186 Roma & online
·ECFR Rome
La sfida tecnologica posta dalla transizione energetica è un fattore dirimente di competizione tra gli
attori internazionali, con implicazioni critiche sul futuro assetto geoeconomico globale, come reso
evidente dalle tensioni nelle relazioni commerciali tra Stati Uniti, Cina e Unione Europea. Allo stesso
tempo, la proiezione esterna degli attori internazionali e lo sforzo di costruzione di nuove partnership
e collaborazioni sono meccanismi essenziali per lo sviluppo di catene del valore resilienti
NH Roma Centro, Via dei Gracchi 324, Rome
·ECFR Rome
The Russian large-scale invasion of Ukraine has opened many European pandora boxes. Among them, energy and economic dependence from Russia; EU’s reaction time to Putin’s aggression; European disunity; the military and defense question; Europe’s fragility in the technological competition. Last, but not least, Europe’s exposure to external actors’ influence, with consequences on the information space and the “Open Internet” era, undermined like never before by disinformation
L’IMEC è un progetto a lungo termine che richiede investimenti considerevoli e presenta notevoli ostacoli interni ed esterni. Ma il potenziale del corridoio di rafforzare i legami tra potenze diverse potrebbe rivelarsi prezioso in questo mondo frammentato e turbolento, con benefici geopolitici e geoeconomici per Europa ed i suoi partner
