East meets West Expert Series
An Expert Roundtable organised by the Europe-Asia Centre, Brussels
August 2021
The last European Council raised “strategic autonomy”1 to the level of a central concept for a new phase of the European project. Building European strategic autonomy on a horizontal – cross-policy basis is expected to – strengthen EU multilateral action, reduce dependence on external actors, and make the EU less vulnerable in areas such as energy, disinformation digital technology. Especially, the new frontiers of global governance needs to be increased, and which must be fully understood in all its implications. This is the case of internet or cyberspace governance, as a new dimension of reality, is being massively amplified and transformed by the combined effect of the Internet of Things that connects trillions of objects and services to artificial intelligence. Until now, this is an area of growing a geostrategic competition and governance for cyberspace is still inconsistent and fragile, there is a huge potential for building European ‘strategic autonomy’ and ‘approach’ which can play a key role in improving the algorithms of governance at all levels build a truly multilateral way of governing internet.
Participating high-level guests
Ambassador (ret.) Piet Steel, Chairman of Europe-Asia Centre, Belgium
H.E. Violeta Bulc, European Commissioner for Transport and Mobility (2014 – 2019), Deputy Prime-Minister of Slovenia
Participating experts
Ms Mireia Paulo, Lecturer and Research Associate, Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Mr André Loesekrug-Pietr, Chairman, Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI), France
Dr Miguel Otero-Iglesias, Professor of Practice at IE School of Global and Public Affairs and Senior Analyst at Elcano Royal Institute, Spain
Roundtable moderator
Mr Matic Gajsek, Deputy Director, Europe – Asia Center, Belgium
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