European Strategic Autonomy is an increasingly significant and controversial guiding concept for the European Union (EU) at a time of geopolitical tensions and economic transformation. It refers to the EU's ability to chart its own course in line with its interests and values in different policy areas. Strategic Autonomy is shaping the EU trade policy along three main dimensions: openness to trade and investment, responsibility for a greener and fairer world, and assertiveness against unfair and coercive practices. Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and Institut Jacques Delors (IJD) cooperate in a research project “Strategic autonomy in a post-Covid world: an Italo-French perspective” on the application of this model to European trade and investment, with the aim to explore the state of play and the challenges for value chains resilience, and the geopolitical dimension in the framework of the USA-China rivalry. During the webinar, the main results of the research efforts carried out by IAI and IJD will be presented and discussed with leading experts.

WELCOME REMARKS: NATHALIE TOCCI, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) KICK-OFF SPEECH: PASCAL LAMY, President Emeritus, Institut Jacques Delors ROUNDTABLE: ELVIRE FABRY, Senior Research Fellow, Institut Jacques Delors, FABRIZIO BOTTI, Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), PAOLO GUERRIERI, Visiting Professor, PSIA - Sciences-Po, and Scientific Advisor, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), SYLVIE BERMANN, Former French Ambassador, Member of the Board of Directors, Institut Jacques Delors, CHRISTIAN BLUTH, Senior Expert for Globalisation, International Economics and Trade Policy, Bertelsmann Stiftung, MALORIE SCHAUS, Researcher, Coordinator of the Task Force on the New Industrial Strategy for Europe, CEPS CONCLUDING REMARKS: PIER CARLO PADOAN, Vice President, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) ➢ MODERATED BY ALAN BEATTIE, Senior Trade Writer, Financial Times.