John Davis
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2,624 appearances
39 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
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Yeah, so I suppose we get to sit in the chair of a lot of really important conversations.
Europe will get to, or Ireland will get to manage the flow of a lot of these files in terms of setting the agenda, in terms of getting things advanced.
From a Brussels perspective, we're coming at quite an important time, David, because we're coming out of Cypriot presidency that's been disrupted because Europe is now at war on two fronts, right?
So to speak, from a European business perspective, we feel that in terms of cyber threats, cyber attacks, it doesn't manifest itself on two-fronted military war.
Obviously, we have a war in Ukraine and with the Middle East now, we have the advent of more cyber attacks.
The Cypriot presidency has been disrupted.
And then when we come out of the Irish presidency, we go to the Lithuanian presidency.
So I think it's a lot of people in Brussels looking at the Irish presidency saying, this is going to be a really important six months in terms of advancing key files.
And Ireland has that track record in terms of being very successful in terms of dealing with tricky issues.
Previously, in terms of enlargement of the European Union, some really effective presidency work about financial budgeting and the multi-annual financial frameworks in Europe.
These are tricky.
When you're talking about money, they're always tricky negotiations, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
The Irish have done that well in the past, David.
So I think the presidency is going to be important to advance some of those issues.
We're going to have some real flagship kind of occasions as well, particularly an AI summit.
And we're going to see a lot of global business leaders coming to Dublin for an AI summit later in the year, in October of the year.
So I think that's going to be a real key flagship opportunity.
And I think one in which Ireland can position itself, you know, cutting edge regulation, innovation, how do we manage those kind of trade offs and how do we ensure that we get an AI, not just regulatory model, but an economic and kind of competitiveness and productivity opportunity for the European economy.
That's going to work really well for us.
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