Prominent guests including ECB President Christine Lagarde, Carlyle Co-Founder David Rubenstein, and Director General of the WTO Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala discuss the threats and challenges faced by the global economy, the trade conditions in 2023 and forecast for 2024, the EU's concerns about subsidies and capital markets union, transitioning to a US-China partnership, building resilience and mobilizing resources, challenges of fiscal reform and financing the green transition, and the difficulties of raising taxes and phasing out subsidies.