Micropodcast: What’s Happening Across the Atlantic
Welcome to our micropodcast series, an initiative that aims to offer our members and wider audience hands-on updates on current affairs and policy developments on both sides of the pond. In these short 3-5 minute segments key power brokers along with subject matter experts from within the EACC membership will help shed light on what is happening on both sides of the Atlantic and how these developments affect our community.
Areas of focus include:
• Trade
• Logistics
• Energy
• Infrastructure
We hope you will enjoy what our members have put together!
9. What’s New on the Tariff Front?
Our guest for this episode of “What’s Happening Across the Atlantic” podcast series, is Sahra English, Managing Director and Head of International Government Affairs at CITI. In conversation with Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, Executive Director of the EACCNY, Sahra shares her insights on the latest developments in the brave new world of Tariffs


8. Europe’s Competitiveness: Is the EU Ready for the Future?
Our guest for this episode of the “What’s Happening Across the Atlantic” podcast series, is Kerstin Jorna, Director General of the EU’s DG GROW which is in charge of the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. In conversation with Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, Executive Director of the EACCNY, she discusses the EU’s most recent actions to ramp up its competitiveness.


7. The Vision behind Europe’s SIU: The EU’s Capital Markets – from Savings to Investments
To conclude our 4-episode series on the SIU John Berrigan, Director General of the European Commission’s DG FISMA and in conversation with Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, Executive Director of the EACCNY discuss the EU Commissions Strategy behind the launch of the SIU and what to expect during the implementation of the SIU over the coming years.


6. What Savers & Investors Can Expect from the EU’s Savings & Investments Union
In this third episode of our SIU Series, Astrid Cousin, Director for Horizontal Policies at the European Commission’s DG FISMA in conversation with Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, Executive Director of the EACCNY, lays out the benefits of the SIU for private savers, companies and institutional investors, both in the EU and the U.S.


5. What You Need to Know About the Savings and Investments Union (SIU)
In this second episode of our SIU series, Andrea Beltramello, Head of the SIU Coordination Unit at the EUROPEAN COMMISSION’s DG FISMA in conversation with Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, Executive Director of the EACCNY, breaks down the measures taken so far to implement the SIU, and offers a high-level overview of the stakeholders involved.


4. From Capital Markets Union to the Savings and Investments Union
To kick off our 4-episode series on the Saving & Investments Union Andrea Beltramello, Head of the SIU Coordination Unit at the EUROPEAN COMMISSION’s DG FISMA together with Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, Executive Director of the EACCNY, explores how EU financial markets and infrastructure compare to the US, and outlines the key challenges the SIU aims to address to unite the EU capital markets.


3. Is Europe Facing an Energy Shortage?
The crisis in the Middle East has not only sent fossil fuel prices soaring but it also reshaped Europe’s – and the world’s – energy landscape.
In this episode of our What’s Happening Across the Atlantic series, Isaac Valero, Head of Unit for International Relations at the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Energy, in conversation with Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, Executive Director of the EACCNY, answers the million‑dollar question, if Europe is facing an energy shortage due to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz.


2. The Misunderstood Role of International Law in the Global Supply Chain
In this episode of our “What’s Happening Across the Atlantic” series, EACCNY member Simon Kaye, President and CEO of JAGUAR FREIGHT and Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, Executive Director of the EACCNY, discuss the practical limits of International Law in today’s global trade landscape.


1. The Supply Chain Impacts of the Strait of Hormuz Closure
To start off our “What’s Happening Across the Atlantic” series, we give the floor to EACCNY member Simon Kaye President and CEO of JAGUAR FREIGHT who answers Yvonne Bendinger-Rothschild, Executive Director of the EACCNY’s questions on the critical importance of the Strait of Hormuz for global energy flows.

