Source: World Trade Organization – WTO (video statements)
In Yaoundé on the eve of the 14th Ministerial Conference on 25 March, a group of ministers underscored the central role of services trade in supporting development and emphasized the importance of WTO-World Bank efforts to help developing members overcome challenges. Director-General Okonjo-Iweala called for stronger international partnerships through the Trade in Services for Development initiative to boost support for developing members.
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Healing the planet by helping forests tops the agenda at the UN
Please let me know if you create a link and I’ll send it to colleagues for posting on their Trello board plus of course put it in the notificator and send that Monday morning.
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
With only 2 days to go until the State Opening of Parliament, Leader of the House of Lords, Baroness Smith of Basildon, explains what happens during the event and her role in it.
📺 You can watch the State Opening of Parliament live on Wednesday 13 May on the House of Lords YouTube channel https://orlo.uk/5t6m6
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Keynote speech by Maria Luís Albuquerque, European Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union, at the joint conference of the European Commission and the European Central Bank “European Financial Integration 2026”.
The conference took place on 7 May 2026.
See the conference programme here:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/260507-european-financial-integration.en.html
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Keynote speech by Luis De Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, at the joint conference of the European Commission and the European Central Bank “European Financial Integration 2026”.
The conference took place on 7 May 2026.
See the conference programme here:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/260507-european-financial-integration.en.html
Watch all sessions from the conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl21D9J6kVk&list=PLnVAEZuF9FZlLRLPr0lrYXqh4DcZfWRBT
How can a more integrated banking sector enhance the competitiveness of the EU economy?
Chair: Frank Elderson, member of the Executive Board and Vice-Chair of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, ECB
Panellists:
• Jonás Fernández Álvarez, Member of the European Parliament (Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats) and member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
• María Abascal, Director General of the Spanish Banking Association and Chair of EBF Executive Committee
• Britta Schmidt, Senior EU Banks Analyst, Autonomous Research
• Ignazio Angeloni, Senior Policy Fellow, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE (Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe), Goethe University Frankfurt
The conference took place on 7 May 2026.
See the conference programme here:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/260507-european-financial-integration.en.html
Watch all sessions from the conference:
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Presentation of the ECB’s report on Financial Integration and Structure in the Euro Area:
John Fell, Deputy Director General of the Directorate General Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability, ECB
Presentation of the European Commission’s European Financial Stability and Integration Review:
Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Deputy Director-General of the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA), European Commission
The conference took place on 7 May 2026.
See the conference programme here:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/260507-european-financial-integration.en.html
Watch all sessions from the conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Y49BF8mTQ&list=PLnVAEZuF9FZlLRLPr0lrYXqh4DcZfWRBT
From pillars to portfolios: rethinking pensions for an entrepreneurial Europe
Chair: Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Deputy Director-General of DG FISMA, European Commission
Panellists:
• Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe Group)
• Geraldine Leegwater, CEO, PGGM Investment Management
• Beate Petry, Head of Global Pensions & Benefits, BASF SE, and Chairwoman of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für betriebliche Altersversorgung e.V. (German pension association)
• Patrick Hoedjes, Head of the Policy and Supervisory Convergence Department, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority
• Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Professor of Finance, University of Mannheim, and Head of the Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets Research Unit, Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
The conference took place on 7 May 2026.
See the conference programme here:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/260507-european-financial-integration.en.html
Watch all sessions from the conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Y49BF8mTQ&list=PLnVAEZuF9FZlLRLPr0lrYXqh4DcZfWRBT
00:14 – AI is making scams more targeted, credible, and hard to detect: James Dolph, CISO at Guidewire, talks through the dizzying new developments in phishing, where large language models can be used to fabricate entire email threads containing your boss and other colleagues, urging you to hand over valuable data.
03:42 – This Nobel laureate explains the ‘creative destruction’ AI is going to unleash: Nobel laureate Peter Howitt is known for his work on ‘creative destruction’, a model of growth whereby innovation creates value, but renders technologies and jobs obsolete in the process. Here, he explains why he believes ‘we’ll all be winners’ from #AI – and why the doom-sayers of previous technologies were proven wrong.
07:31 – Just 1% of aviation fuel is sustainable. Here’s how that figure can take off: Replacing petroleum-derived jet fuels with sustainable alternatives is key to decarbonizing flying. But today, less than 1% of aviation fuel used around the world is sustainable. So what’s the hold-up? Here, Adam Klauber, Chief Sustainability Officer at WorldEnergy and Brian Peers, Global Head of Sustainable Transport and Fuels at HSBC provide some answers.
11:03 – This technology allows anyone to make computer chips: Inside the device you are reading this on right now, a critical component you might never have heard of is beavering away. ‘Instruction set architectures’ (ISA) are the interface between the hardware and software in every computing device. Most ISAs are proprietary and used under licence. RISC-V is an open-source ISA that is free to use, designed explicitly to be customised, and which is already found in billions of devices and computers around the world. Here’s how it works.
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