Europe and the Indo-Pacific: Boosting Engagement with the Key Global Growth Region

Guests: - Joe Kaeser, Chairman, Asia-Pacific-Committee of German Business (APA) and Chairman, Supervisory Board of Siemens Energy AG - Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs, Political Director, European External Action Service - Janka Oertel, Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) - Christophe Penot, Ambassador for the Indo-Pacific, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France Chaired by Laurence Norman, Deputy Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal, Brussels While the European Union is set to present its new strategy for the Indo-Pacific, APA and ECFR have teamed up to provide a timely input to the debate. In its latest position paper the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business acknowledges that to secure Europe’s prosperity, it is increasingly important to more effectively represent European interests in the high development dynamics in the Indo-Pacific. A common external economic policy approach of the EU and its member