European ports are no longer merely logistics hubs; they have become strategic nodes of the continent’s economic security. From Chinese capital’s penetration into terminals in Piraeus and Hamburg to member states’ growing reliance on foreign investment screening tools \u2014 in Italy, the Golden Power mechanism \u2014 the question of ownership and governance of port infrastructure has become a battleground between commercial openness and national security protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This panel examines the tensions within the EU’s industrial strategy on ports: on one hand, the need to attract investment and remain competitive in a global maritime market dominated by a handful of major powers; on the other, the need to protect infrastructure considered sensitive from a geopolitical and security standpoint. The discussion will address how to harmonise national foreign investment screening mechanisms with a genuine, shared European industrial policy capable of strengthening the resilience of logistics chains without sacrificing the attractiveness of the continent’s port system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The session will offer the audience a reading of how Europe \u2014 and Italy in particular, given its strategic position in the Mediterranean \u2014 can turn its ports from a potential vulnerability into a lever of geoeconomic competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30342,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[213,57,292,537,285],"channel":[],"event_type":[279],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n