Joint event with the BDI
Europe's Partnerships with the Global South
The panel during the lively discussion
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“The future of international cooperation: Europe's partnerships with the global South” - that was the topic of a panel discussion we co-hosted at the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Munich just before the start of the Munich Security Conference., together with the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
Renowned speakers from India, Brazil, South Africa, and Germany shared crucial insights, followed by an engaging Question and Answer session that included the active audience as well.
Hanns Seidel Foundation Chair Markus Ferber, MEP
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"I do not share the myth of the inevitable decline of democracy."
Our Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Chair Markus Ferber, MEP, referred to recent elections in African countries and India as examples and underlined: "Billions of people are striving for basic democratic norms, including most Europeans."
Tanja Gönner, Managing Director, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI)
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"Tomorrow's growth markets are emerging in the global South. They are key to diversifying our supply chains. For mutually beneficial partnerships, we must take our partners' interests seriously and keep our own interests in mind."
Tanja Gönner, Managing Director, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI)
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde
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Western Cape Premier Alan Winde emphasized:
"We need an alliance of friends who will continue to support free trade in the future. The opposite of protectionism is more free trade, more partnership. We must do everything we can to protect our planet & our rules-based order."
Dr. Feliciano Guimaraes, Institute of International Relations, São Paulo University and Academic Director, Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais (CEBRI)
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"BRICS ... is also about the stronger presence of the Global South. At the same time, South Africa, Brazil and India have no interest in BRICS being anti-Western."
Dr. Feliciano Guimaraes, Institute of International Relations, São Paulo University and Academic Director, Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais (CEBRI)
Eric Beißwenger, MdL, Bavarian State Minister for European and International Relations
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"Development cooperation needs to be reorganised - we need to focus more on economic development both in Germany and in our partner countries."
Eric Beißwenger, MdL, Bavarian State Minister for European and International Relations
Dr Vijay Chauthaiwale, Head, Foreign Affairs Department, Bharatiya Janata Party, India
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"India supports the G20 membership of the African Union. India hosted the Global South Summit. We are ready to play a constructive role to represent the interests of the Global South."
Dr Vijay Chauthaiwale, Head, Foreign Affairs Department, Bharatiya Janata Party, India
Wolfgang Niedermark, Member of the Executive Board, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI)
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"The global order has broken down, and a new order does not yet exist. We live in an interregium. We need a cooperation model between our economy and development cooperation. This also involves financing models."
Wolfgang Niedermark, Member of the Executive Board, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI)
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