Macif x IJD – “Endure or Choose? Sovereignty at the Heart of Our Transitions”

Macif x JDI: European Encounters #2

Date & Venue:

Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 6:30–8:30 PM

Keiko Amphitheatre, 127 Quai du Président Roosevelt, 92130

Issy-les-Moulineaux

Title:

“Endure or Choose? Sovereignty at the Heart of Our Transitions”

Context:

In recent years, the European Green Deal and, more broadly, all initiatives aimed at achieving carbon neutrality have faced a significant backlash. Considered by some to be too costly, too restrictive, or burdened by excessive regulation, climate ambitions now appear to be losing momentum. Yet, crisis after crisis – whether economic, social, energy-related, health-related, or environmental – one conclusion has become increasingly clear: our economic development model, based on mass consumption and hyper-globalized value chains, is being fundamentally called into question. It is both the source of these disruptions and the primary victim of the instability they generate.

Too often, the fight against climate change has been framed as being at odds with the preservation of our way of life. But what if, on the contrary, the sustainability of our daily lives depended directly on our ability to rethink our production model around the energy transition? This is where restoring sovereignty becomes a key lever. In Europe, our strategic dependencies are what make us vulnerable to every global shock. These same dependencies have fuelled deindustrialization and today expose the most vulnerable to precarity whenever inflation rises again.

To discuss these major challenges and explore sovereignty not as a form of withdrawal, but as a response to global instability and a source of collective resilience, the Jacques Delors Institute and Macif invite you to an exceptional roundtable discussion on 30 June.

Speakers:

Matthieu Auzanneau, Author and former Director of The Shift Project

Aurore Lalucq, Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

Jean-Philippe Dogneton, Chief Executive Officer of Macif