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European Business Summit 2026

17 & 18 November

Egmont Palace

For Europe’s Next Era of Strategic Independence

The 2026 European Business Summit will open the floor to a timely and necessary debate: how can Europe strengthen its resilience, competitiveness and capacity to act in a world defined by fragmentation, geopolitical pressure and technological disruption?

Strategic independence is no longer an abstract ambition. It is an investment agenda. It means building stronger markets, modern infrastructure, secure supply chains, competitive energy systems, digital capacity and industrial strength, so that Europe remains a place where companies can invest, innovate, scale and grow. Europe’s time to invest in resilience is now.

Invited speakers

Stéphane Séjourné
Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy
Teresa Ribera
Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition
Jessika Roswall
Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy
Costas Kadis
Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans
Hanna Anttilainen
Member of Cabinet of EVP Séjourné
Ditte Juul Jørgensen
Director General DG TRADE
Jan Dusik
Deputy Director General DG CLIMA
Fabian Zuleeg
Chief Executive of the European Policy Centre
Sandra Parthie
President EESC Employers' Group
Dubravka Šuica
Commissioner for Mediterranean
Jozef Síkela
Commissioner for International Partnerships
Maroš Šefčovič
Commissioner for Trade
Maria Luís Albuquerque
Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union
Ana Gallego Torres
Director General DG JUST
Céline Gauer
Director-General DG ENER
Eric Mamer
Director General DG ENVI
Kerstin Jorna
Director General DG GROW
Kurt Vandenberghe
Director General DG CLIMA

Check the 2026 Agenda

Our mission is twofold: we aim to bring politics and business together in order to provide them with an opportunity to debate and pursue their common goals, giving a voice to all sides of the debate. The other priority of EBS is to provide European institutions with a platform where they can place their top priorities in the spotlight and advance the development of new pieces of legislation through discussion with a variety of actors and stakeholders.

Arnaud Thysen
Director General

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