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FII PRIORITY Europe 2026 Post Summit Report
The FII PRIORITY Europe 2026 Post-Summit Report highlights the key insights, discussions, and outcomes from FII PRIORITY Europe in Rome. Featuring perspectives from global leaders across government, business, and finance, the report explores Europe's future through the lenses of investment, AI, energy, innovation, resilience, and international collaboration.
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Carbon Removal Must Borrow More Than Capital to Scale
In our latest op-ed, in collaboration with Gary Ganz, Co-Founder and CEO of Sequest, discover why the future of carbon removal may depend less on breakthrough inventions and more on leveraging proven industrial infrastructure to deliver climate impact at scale.
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Why South America Will Shape Europe’s Economic Resilience
EUROPE’S ECONOMIC FUTURE IS OFTEN discussed through the lenses of defense, energy security and industrial policy. Yet one of its most consequential vulnerabilities sits elsewhere: in food systems. In particular, the evolving agricultural interdependence between the European Union and South America will play a growing role in determining whether Europe becomes more economically resilient—or more […]
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What is Europe’s Economic Future and How Does Europe Get There?
Europe enters 2026 in a new phase: moving from crisis management to reimagining its strategic autonomy in energy, technology, security, and finance. The decisions made in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Rome and boardrooms across the continent over the coming years will determine whether the continent leads the next wave of technological and economic transformation – or […]
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Artificial Intelligence for Climate Risk Prediction and Adaptation
FII Institute, in collaboration with Columbia Climate School, has recently launched “Artificial Intelligence for Climate Risk Prediction and Adaptation,” a timely report examining how artificial intelligence can transform the way societies prepare for and respond to increasingly severe climate events. Authored by Thomas Chandler and Joshua L. Devincenzo, the report highlights a profound shift from […]
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Non-Negotiable Skills In The Future Of Education With AI
As generative AI transforms education and work, the report explores how societies can preserve uniquely human capabilities—such as critical thinking, ethical reasoning, creativity, empathy, and collaboration—and provides actionable insights for educators, institutions, and policymakers to ensure AI strengthens, rather than replaces, human agency.
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June 24, 2026
From Rome, with Urgency: What FII PRIORITY Europe Agreed On
June 17 to 19, the coffee tables at the Rome Cavalieri were rarely empty. Between sessions, the conversations that had started on stage continued in the corridors, over lunch, and well past the official end of the afternoon program. The packed schedule was itself a strong argument: there is more to say than time allows, […]
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June 24, 2026
Europe’s New Geoeconomics: Industrial Power Becomes Security Power
For decades, Europe operated on a stable assumption: security enabled prosperity. A predictable geopolitical environment, open trade routes, and deep economic integration allowed governments to focus on growth, investment, and competitiveness as separate from security concerns. At FII Priority Europe, speakers pointed to a different reality: that separation no longer holds. In today’s geoeconomic environment, […]
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June 23, 2026
Act or wait: How Europe finances its future
Two days of panels on European finance at FII PRIORITY Europe kept returning to the same uncomfortable observation: the continent’s problem is not a shortage of capital. It is a structural failure to get the capital it has to where it needs to go. The sessions on finance, capital markets, digital infrastructure, and institutional trust […]
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June 21, 2026
The Future of AI Is Built, Not Owned — and the Real Revolution Begins Beyond the Screen
Over the past few years, sovereignty has become one of the defining ideas in artificial intelligence. Countries are investing in sovereign clouds, sovereign compute, sovereign models, and sovereign chips. The ambition is understandable: AI is becoming foundational infrastructure, shaping competitiveness, security, productivity, and public services. But there is a paradox at the heart of the […]
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June 19, 2026
When Talent Alone Is Not Enough: What Truly Lies Behind Europe’s Challenges to Scale
Noor Sweid’s clearest lesson about scale did not come from theory, it came from taking her family business public in 2008. As Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, Sweid recalled one of the landmark listings of that period: the first company from the MENA region ever to list on the LSE, and the first […]
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June 19, 2026
Europe’s Energy System Under Strain: Speed and the New Physical Economy
The global energy transition is no longer defined by a simple trilemma of security, affordability, and decarbonization. As multiple speakers at the FII Priority Europe sessions argued, it has evolved into something more complex: a quadrilemma shaped by geopolitics, infrastructure speed, industrial strategy, and strategic positioning in global value chains. At its core lies a […]
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June 18, 2026
Europe At an Inflection Point: Optimism Against Numbers
Italy, a G7 economy, now has a lower GDP per capita than Mississippi. That single line, dropped midway through a panel on FII PRIORITY Europe’s first full day, did more to frame the morning than anything said before it. Richard Attias had opened by naming the narrative everyone in the room had come to challenge: […]
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June 17, 2026
Day Zero “Verdict”: Europe Has The Capital, But Lacks The Machinery
FII PRIORITY Europe opened on the terrace of the Rome Cavalieri, with Matteo Renzi reminding the room that the European project itself was born a few kilometres away, when six countries signed the Treaties of Rome almost seventy years ago. Europe, he told the room, had a choice to make: keep watching from the sidelines, […]
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June 14, 2026
FII PRIORITY Europe: The Summit Shaping the Continent’s Future
In just three days, global capital converges on Rome. Over 1,600 leading investors, policymakers and innovators from across the globe have registered to gather at a moment of acute uncertainty for Europe’s economic future, as well as acute opportunity. The FII PRIORITY Europe Summit, organised by the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute – a global […]
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May 5, 2024
Are robots the solution to the crisis in older-person care?
Addressing global elderly care resource shortages, social robots provide companionship and assistance, enhancing the well-being and independence of the elderly. But, some researchers are beginning to question if these devices are ready for widespread use or if the investment in technology is better spent in traditional care methods. Explore the debate in our recent Nature sponsor feature here
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September 27, 2023
A test of artificial intelligence
As debate rages over the abilities of modern AI systems, scientists are still struggling to effectively assess machine intelligence.
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September 21, 2023
Will ChatGPT give us a lesson in education?
There might be a learning curve as AI tools grow in popularity, but this technology offers teachers opportunities to help pupils acquire new skills around formulating questions and in critical thinking.
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July 4, 2023
Robots need better batteries
As mobile machines travel farther from the grid, they’ll need lightweight and efficient power sources.
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April 12, 2023
Accelerating sustainable finance in the Middle East and Africa
Financial institutions and governments in the region must drive the development and growth of sustainable finance to respond to the climate crisis.
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December 12, 2022
Abandoned: The Human Cost of Neurotechnology Failure
When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.
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FII Institute TV: where the future unfolds
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TH!NKpod, FII Institute’s podcast series featuring the world’s brightest minds and prominent leaders whose journeys will inspire you to make an #ImpactOnHumanity.
