This session will discuss the challenges and potential opportunities confronting the European Union this year as it attempts to carve its new role in the emerging global order. At the end of May, Europe faces the most consequential EU parliamentary elections in its history. How can businesses and passionate individuals promote the most stable outcomes? How will this impact the chances for a US-EU trade agreement in the coming months? And how should Europe position itself in the United States' techno-economic cold war with China?