European Parliamentary Week 2023 Opening session - Economic and social challenges in times of geopolitical uncertainty: Key opening remarks by Valdis DOMBROVSKIS and Mathias CORMANN

European Parliamentary Week/Economic, social and budget concerns. MEPs and national MPs are meeting in Brussels for their annual conference on social, economic and budgetary issues affecting the EU. The parliamentarians’ discussions are set against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty and high inflation, which will necessitate a change in focus from previous years. Key opening remarks by Valdis DOMBROVSKIS, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of an Economy that works for People, and Commissioner for Trade and Mathias CORMANN, Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)