Predictions & Reflections: What Lies Ahead for the World Order?

2024 was a year of both elections and reckoning. Innovations in renewable energy, autonomous travel, and healthcare technologies offered solutions to urgent challenges. However, global conflicts and climate crises also emerged as significant threats, casting a pall as we enter 2025. This panel will explore the promises and perils ahead, assessing the potential for a more peaceful and prosperous 2025.

• What was the biggest lesson of 2024?
• What are the three significant political developments that could make the next year more prosperous than the last?
• What are the three emerging perils that could define the year?
• How has the landscape changed given the major elections of 2024?
• How might Trump 2.0 alter geopolitical equations?
• In your assessment, what are the EU’s options and how do they balance Trump, China, and Russia?

Panellists:

Eric Li, Founder, Guancha.cn, China

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist, Public Policy Analyst, United States of America (Virtual)

Gladden Pappin, President, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, Hungary

Moderator:

Lilla Kakuk, Adviser to the President, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, Hungary