EU Economy & Finance @ecfin@respublicae.eu

"We need a [economic governance] framework that is simpler, more risk-based & one that has a focus on where we will be in the medium-term. This will make the implementation & enforcement of the rules more transparent & clearer."

@Paschald, President of the Eurogroup at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654130737380233222

"Events over the last months, weeks & even days in both the US and Europe have reaffirmed to all of us that there is a real need for us to continue with our progress on Banking Union to make it a source of resilience."

@Paschald, President of the Eurogroup at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654128741738770433

"We are losing young firms that might have been profitable later in their lives. These losses are particularly severe in middle-income economies with less developed financial markets."

@fkocheng, Postdoc @Columbia_Biz, winner of 2022 @ecb Young Economist competition at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654124168391323649

"Generative AI will have a profound impact on our economy going forward. We are unlocking huge entrepreneurial forces that will allow every European to be an entrepreneur."

@Claudia_Olsson, Chief Executive Officer, @stellarcapacity in a TED-style talk at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654123025770647556

"We want to have diversified, and thus resilient, supply chains. That is what we want to achieve through our raw materials strategy and by pursuing trade agreements & other forms of partnerships with reliable partners around the world."

@VDombrovskis at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654117526400532485

“We should be facilitating resilience of supply chains not through regulation, but by supporting the creation of new trading relationships.”

@BJavorcik, Chief Economist @EBRD at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654116452616773633

"Europe needs to focus on making sure that its firms are investing and it is creating the ecosystem for its industries to be able to thrive."

@lindayueh, Adjunct Professor of Economics at @LBS at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654114093287227399

"We should not react to ‘America First’ with ‘Europe First’, but with ‘Europe Fast’. We have to be quicker! One & half year for approval for a green hydrogen project is too long. Europe Fast is the answer in the globalised world."

@berndlange, Member of @europarl_en at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654113168103464961

"My assumption is that we are at an inflection point in history. We not only need to, but we also have economic benefits from dramatically accelerating sustainable solutions."

@jhsnabe, Chairman @Siemens at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654112022596837376

"We are moving away from our dependency on fossil fuels. It’s important that we do not create another strategic dependency for inputs that are needed for the green and digital economy."

Executive Vice-President, @VDombrovskis

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654110331688427520

How can we ensure the 🇪🇺 EU's industry remains competitive?

The panel on “Global Europe 2.0” with @VDombrovskis, @BJavorcik, @jhsnabe, @lindayueh & @berndlange is now live at #EUBEF23!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654109047790993408

@Suitpossum @BIS_org Here is the final result of the #EUBEF23 debate on whether a cashless society would be beneficial for people & the economy:

27% of voters are in favour and 27% are against after following our debate with Cecilia Skingsley and @Suitpossum

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654103741669298179

@Suitpossum @BIS_org "Our confidence in digital money is predicated upon access to cash. If you undermine the cash system, you simultaneously undermine confidence in digital systems."

@Suitpossum, Financial journalist and author at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654101282938929152

@Suitpossum "The drivers that are changing our behaviours in going away from cash are also the drivers that are coming up with new solutions to problems that cash and traditional financial services have never been able to solve"

Cecilia Skingsley, Head of Innovation Hub @BIS_org at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654098811936026626

📣 It's time for the #EUBEF23 debate!

‘This forum believes that a cashless society would be beneficial for people and the economy’.

❓Are you for or against a cashless society❓

🔴 Follow the debate LIVE

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654098050409721859

🔴📺 The Brussels Economic Forum is back LIVE! #EUBEF23

We'll talk about:
- adapting EU’s industry to a changing world order
- preparing Europe for the Generative AI Era
- and whether a cashless society is beneficial for economy

🎥 Join us now! 👇 https://n.respublicae.eu/i/broadcasts/1ypKddOBzdoKW

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654092887678926850

RT @NadiaCalvino: Very good meeting with Commissioner @PaoloGentiloni in the margins of #EUBEF23 @ecfin to discuss the economic outlook, implementation of #NextGenEU🇪🇺 investments & reforms and main priorities for the upcoming Spanish @EUCouncil presidency in the #ecofin area. https://t.co/RykEfawmbf

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654087021831282694

"The political decision to treat Ukraine as a candidate state should be re-enforced by economic integration, with more access for Ukraine in the EU’s internal market." #StandWithUkraine

@taraskachka, Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine 🇺🇦 at #EUBEF23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecfin/status/1654075515207135234