Third Australia-Europe Economic Relations Dialogue

9:00am

Welcome and opening – Peter Draper (IIT), Andreas Freytag (FSU), Mike Plummer (Johns Hopkins University, Bologna)
Welcome address – Uwe Cantner, Vice-President FSU Jena

9:15am

Keynote: Anabel Gonzalez, Deputy Director General, WTO: Trade Policy in Times of Systems Competition (virtual)

10:00am

Values-Based Trade
Chair: Silke Übelmesser, FSU Jena
Discussants: Volker Treier, DIHK , Naoise McDonagh, University of Adelaide, Jan Schmitz, DG Trade, European Commission, Tobias Pierlings, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action

11:30am

Morning Break

11:45am

Geo-Economics and the EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement
Chair: Mike Plummer, Johns Hopkins University Bologna
Discussants: Philip Green, Australian Ambassador, Lauren Johnston, University of Adelaide
N.N., Federal Foreign Office, Peter Petri, Brandeis International Business School (IBS)

1:15pm

Lunch Break

2:30pm

Climate Change, Energy, and the EU’s Approach to Sustainability in Trade
Chair: Richard Pomfret, University of Adelaide
Discussants: Ulrich Weigl, EU Commission, Claudia Schmucker, DGAP, Philipp Lamprecht, ECIPE
Matthias Menter, FSU Jena

4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:15pm

Digital Trade Cooperation
Chair: Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, FSU Jena
Discussants: Crispin Conroy, ICC Paris, Matthias Bauer, ECIPE, Stefanie Hock, University of Hannover
Rolf Langhammer, IfW Kiel

5.45pm

Final remarks – Peter Draper (IIT), Andreas Freytag (FSU), Mike Plummer (Johns Hopkins University, Bolonga)