Speakers
Mauro Petriccione
Deputy Director General of the Directorate General for Trade, European Commission
Marietje Schaake
Member of European Parliament, the Netherlands
Stephen Biegun
Senior Vice President of the Boeing Company, former US Deputy Secretary of State
Siim Kallas
Professor of the University of Tartu, Former Vice- President of the European Commission
Moderator
Kristjan Lepik
Product Manager at Move Guides Teleport, Estonia
The G20 has abandoned its long-standing support for trade liberalisation as the engine of economic growth and poverty reduction. The financial crisis is partly to blame—not least in fanning protectionist sentiment among the public in France and Germany—but it is President Trump who has made protectionism an ideology.
- Has the tide of globalisation truly turned, as it did nearly a century ago?
- Are deals such as CETA the last gasps of a decades-long era of trade liberalisation, or do they show the continued resilience of the global free trade paradigm?
- Who stands to lose and gain if globalisation goes into reverse?
