From Monday to Saturday, Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis, in charge of Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification, Commissioner Jozef Síkela, in charge of International Partnerships, and Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque, in charge of Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union, are attending the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C.
Commissioner Dombrovskis will represent the European Commission at the sessions of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and at the G7 and G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meetings, where discussions will focus, amongst others, on support to Ukraine and on the impact of tariffs on the global economy. The Commissioner will hold several bilateral meetings on the margins of the Spring Meetings with his counterparts from the US, Ukraine, China, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. On Wednesday 23 April, Commissioner Dombrovskis will deliver a keynote speech at the Atlantic Council focusing on Europe’s competitiveness in the context of increasing geopolitical and trade tensions. Following the Spring meetings, Commissioner Dombrovskis will be in New York on 28 and 29 April, where he will engage in a series of high-level meetings with top officials from major financial institutions and global companies and visit the New York Stock Exchange, where he will meet with its President, Lynn Martin.
Commissioner Síkela will present and promote the EU’s Global Gateway Strategy as a strategic, mutually beneficial approach to development – focused on partner-driven priorities, combining investment into infrastructure with human development investments like education, training, healthcare – and helping create a conducive investment climate for private-sector engagement. He will represent the EU at the Plenary Session of the World Bank Development Committee and hold high-level bilaterals with government representatives, UN leaders, the IMF, and global investors, along with public appearances and private investor outreach to strengthen international cooperation in sustainable development under the EU’s leadership.
Commissioner Albuquerque will hold high-level meetings with government representatives, major institutional investors, nonprofit organisations and trade associations. On Wednesday, she will meet with the Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), Pan Gongsheng, and will participate at the Hudson Institute – Central & Eastern European Strategy Summit and in the Institute of International Finance (IIF) Global Outlook Forum. On Thursday, Commissioner Albuquerque will meet with India’s Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, and join a discussion on “The Future of Finance: Making Finance Work for the Economy” at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. On Friday, she will meet separately with US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, to discuss financial regulatory matters, and with the Federal Reserve Chair, Jay Powell. Additionally, the Commissioner will participate in the US Treasury Regulatory Roundtable, which will address ongoing work on financial regulatory policies and explore the changing boundaries between bank and non-bank financial intermediaries.
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