Europe's future in 3D: Fiscal, trade, and defense challenges

April 25, 2025, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT
PIIE Webcast, Washington, DC
Olivier Blanchard (PIIE), Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Adam S. Posen (PIIE) and Constanze Stelzenmüller (Brookings Institution)

As Europe navigates a fundamentally changed geopolitical landscape, critical challenges have arisen about its fiscal future, foreign trade relationships, and more profound defense ambitions. This high-level discussion will examine the European Union’s economic policy trajectory, and the political and economic dynamics driving European integration.

MODERATOR

Adam S. Posen 
President, PIIE

PANELISTS

Cecilia Malmström 
Nonresident Senior Fellow, PIIE; former European Commissioner for Trade; former European Commissioner for Home Affairs

Olivier Blanchard  
Senior Fellow, PIIE

Constanze Stelzenmüller 
Director and Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, and Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Trans-Atlantic Relations, Brookings Institution