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FII PRIORITY Europe 2026

Europe Reimagined: Capital, Sovereignty & Strategic Autonomy
Rome, Cavalieri, Waldorf Astoria Hotel
June 17-19, 2026
 
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Europe enters 2026 in a new phase: moving from crisis management to reimagining its
strategic autonomy in energy, technology, security, and finance.


Under the theme “Europe Reimagined: Capital, Sovereignty & Strategic Autonomy,” FII PRIORITY Europe 2026 Summit in Rome convened global investors, policymakers, and innovators to examine how capital can secure Europe’s long-term competitiveness. With Euro area growth projected around 1.2% in 2026, patient private capital and smarter industrial policy will be critical to unlocking higher productivity and resilience. In Rome, leaders explored how to finance reindustrialization, resilient supply chains, and workforce transformation in an AI-enabled economy that demands new skills and new social contracts.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Richard Attias, Chairman of the Executive Committee, FII Institute, Founder & Chairman, Richard Attias & Associates
H.E. Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italian Republic
H.E. Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, Italian Republic
Board of Changemakers: Europe at the Inflection Point Panel
Sir Noel Quinn, Chair, Julius Baer Group
Stella Li, Executive Vice President, CEO of Americas & Europe and MENA, BYD Company Limited
Anthony Gutman, Global Co-Head of Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs, Co-CEO, Goldman Sachs International (GSI)
H.E. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, President of the Council of the Togolese Republic
Buy European: Delivering the Draghi Blueprint to Repower Europe’s Economy Panel
Maurizio Tamagnini, Founder & CEO, FSI
Andrea Pignataro, Founder & CEO, ION Group
Mayor Roberto Gualtieri
Mayor Roberto Gualtieri

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Building on the legacy of the FII Institute’s renowned annual conference in Riyadh, the FII PRIORITY Summits are designed as engines of actionable change. Held in influential cities—global hubs for innovation and economic leadership—the Summits emphasize the Global South and other emerging markets to tackle critical global challenges. Far from merely reflecting on the current state of affairs, FII PRIORITY Summits pioneer solutions that transcend industries and geographies. By convening thought leaders, investors, and policymakers, the Summits transform today’s challenges into tomorrow’s breakthroughs, setting the stage for sustainable growth and unparalleled value creation.

FII PRIORITY Europe 2026 Summit took place from June 17-19, 2026 in Rome, Cavalieri, Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

FII PRIORITY Europe 2026 Summit was convened under the theme, “Europe Reimagined: Capital, Sovereignty & Strategic Autonomy,” where global investors, policymakers, and innovators to examine how capital can secure Europe’s long-term competitiveness. With Euro area growth projected around 1.2% in 2026, patient private capital and smarter industrial policy will be critical to unlocking higher productivity and resilience.

FII Institute Members have had exclusive access to our FII PRIORITY Summits year-round and our annual FII Flagship Conference via members hub for registration.

  • EUROPE IS RE-ACCELERATING: Euro area growth is projected around 1.2% in 2026 with a supportive policy mix and easing financial conditions, signaling a stable, low-volatility environment for investors.
  • MASSIVE INVESTMENT WAVE: the IMF estimates that boosting European productivity could crowd in up to €800 billion in additional private investment over ten years, highlighting deep deployment capacity for global capital.
  • STRATEGIC GREEN/INDUSTRIAL PIVOT: the EU’s Green Deal Industrial Plan positions Europe as a lead manufacturing base for net-zero technologies, from batteries to clean tech, anchoring long-term industrial projects.
  • GLOBAL RULE-SETTER: as the world’s largest integrated single market with active new trade deals (e.g., with Mercosur and India), Europe remains a standard-setter on regulation, climate, and digital policy that shapes global business models.
  • BRIDGING HERITAGE WITH MODERNITY: Rome at the intersection of Old World heritage and a country mid-reform, embodying Europe’s efforts to convert legacy into future-proof competitiveness.

FII PRIORITY Europe 2026 Summit convened the world’s most influential investors, renowned business leaders, visionary heads of state, government leaders, policymakers, scientists, academic experts, international media, futurists, trend-setters, global investors, innovators, and disruptors as well as cultural icons from across the world.

FII PRIORITY Europe 2026 Summit discussed:

  • AI, DATA & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
  • REAL ESTATE, TOURISM & URBAN REVITALIZATION
  • GREEN INDUSTRIAL POLICY & ENERGY
  • SUPPLY CHAINS, TRADE & SECURITY
  • CAPITAL MARKETS & INVESTMENT FLOWS
  • ADVANCED MANUFACTURING & DEEP TECH

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