#EBS2019 Ambassador Mark Gitenstein: the #US want the #WTO to return to its original charter. It shouldn’t be a forum for creating new rules. Its judges shouldn’t use previous cases as precedents or look beyond. If the #EU wants to create a new body that goes beyond WTO mandate, it’s free to do so

#EBS2019 Laurence Brooks presents the Sherpa Project : EU funded project which analyses how #AI and big data analytics impact ethics and human rights to find solutions to benefit society 🤖 Have a look & have a say on ⬇️ project-sherpa.eu

'China holds up a mirror to us' - we should choose who we are and build the economy of the future rather than clinging on past approaches. These are urgent choices, also for business, says MEP Marietje Schaake in #A_Room @ #EBS2019

#EBS2019 For Luisa Santos BUSINESSEUROPE, even if the #EU is not prepared to lead, it might be forced to do so, as we can’t rely on the #US any longer & don’t want #China to lead. The EU needs to be pragmatic, find opportunistic partnership & develop further w/ its neighbourhood.

#EBS2019 Luisa Santos BUSINESSEUROPE asks for a shift from a case by case to a rule based #OneBeltOneRoad . EU businesses want more and more openess, transparency and legal certainty. The EU hopes this initiative will profit to all and not only to a few. 🇪🇺🇨🇳 #SkepticalOptimism

EPSC presenting its report on EU industrial policy after Siemens-Alstom case at @ebsummiteurope. On competition policy, more can be done especially on public procurement. Need to find
a balance between openness and protection #EBS2019 #Competition

For Benjamin Hartmann EPSC, we might make a tactical mistake if we politicise competition law. Then, refusing a merger will be considered as a political decision & accepting a merger will be considered as a political favour. #PostAlstomSiemens European Business Summits

Unknotting #Brexit w/ Simon Fraser at European Business Summits. Horizon of uncertainty ahead. Every option sounds complicated and unlikely. No easy answer. Better be prepared for further polarisation in the UK. Must continue #nodeal contingency planning for potential cliff-edge on 10/31

🇮🇪🇪🇺The EU needs a soul. This soul can be found in the values enshrined in the Treaties: Democraty, Rule of Law, Tolerance, Multiculturalism. Those values can never be options or extras - Simon Coveney, Irish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affair Jacques Delors Institute

And we have a #Brexit deal! Now it’s UK & EU Parliaments turn 🇪🇺🇬🇧 #EUCO

#FinanceClimat Jérôme Brouillet Direction générale du Trésor et Tom Verheye EU Environment débattent sur le « risk return » et le « comply or explain » La France dans l’UE 🇫🇷🇪🇺

#FinanceClimat Arnaud Leroy PDG de l’ADEME et CDP_PaulS CEO de CDP échangent sur ACT (Assessing Climate Transition) La France dans l’UE 🇫🇷🇪🇺

I have just sent a letter to Charles Michel recommending to the #EUCO #Article50 to find that decisive progress has been made in the negotiations on the orderly withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. #Brexit

Climate change is the most pressing challenge facing humankind, requiring a collective response. On 26 Sep, leaders will host #OnePlanetSummit to accelerate the #ParisAgreement 's implementation by putting finance in service of #ClimateAction .
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[ #EUEnergySummit ] V. Thouvenin d'RTE rappelle les multiples fonctionnalités du stockage pour le réseau #électrique : retardement des renforcements coûteux du réseau, services liés à la fréquence [1/2]

[ #EUEnergySummit ] Northvolt revient sur son objectif principal 'produire la #batterie la plus verte au monde' comme un instrument clé de l'intégration des #ENR et du développement de l' #electromobilité !

The #storage topic has 3 dimensions:
- need to solve short-term flexibility
- need to solve seasonal security of supply
- the winter/summer gap & affordability
Klaus Schäfer at #EUEnergySummit
Uniper

'We have in our framework the possibility to create storage - via funding & the future FP9 as well as the launch of the #battery alliance' Mechthild Wörsdörfer at #EUEnergySummit Energy4Europe 🇪🇺

#EUEnergySummit Gilles Pargneaux : Energy storage implies the wider challenge of sovereignty because the materials constituting the batteries aren't produced (mined) in the EU