Progress is built one conversation at a time. With Minister Wang Wentao, we've launched the 🇪🇺🇨🇳 Trade and Investment Consultations to tackle priority issues: trade and investment balancing, export controls, IPR. The work intensifies. I'll be in Beijing in October to assess it.

BREAKING: EU member states, led by France, move to block UK from EU’s €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund. by @mikebutcher pathfounders.com/p/eu-member… P.S. *Pathfounders:Network* Apply: pathfounders.com/network

Paris-Berlin: année zéro. Merci @Grand_Continent de publier cette analyse froide de la relation 🇫🇷🇩🇪 aujourd’hui désastreuse qui affaiblit les deux pays et l’🇪🇺 toute entière. Un appel à prendre les décisions fortes pour continuer à influer le 21e siècle legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2023/…

I have embarked, with Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Pascal Lamy, and Enrico Letta on a major project, called Europe 2050. The idea is to think about what we want Europe to be in 2050, look at where it is today, and how we can go from here to there. (Thanks to Mr Putin and Trump for forcing us to think about the role of Europe, and hopefully, for Europe to do what needs to be done). To achieve this, we have invited a number of experts, be it on trade, on defense, on regulation, on European institutions, on populism, etc, to write short notes, which we shall put on the web as they come during the spring and the summer. Some contributions are likely to be more vision-like, others to be more narrowly focused and technical. (We shall write a stock taking paper at the end). I do not expect the project to come out with a generally agreed plan, but more to serve as a toolbox for what needs to be done. shorturl.at/Wr2QO I intend to tweet about each contribution, starting with the first two. Comments welcome.