{"id":89748,"date":"2018-03-08T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c79f487f20789eb9db4bacbb40246fd9"},"modified":"2018-03-08T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:12:00","slug":"press-release-european-business-leaders-roundtable-8-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89748","title":{"rendered":"Press release: European business leaders&#8217; roundtable: 8 March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This afternoon the Prime Minister hosted key business leaders from across the EU at Downing Street to discuss progress in the UK\u2019s exit from the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister opened the roundtable by welcoming the opportunity to discuss her vision for an ambitious future partnership with the EU following her speech at Mansion House last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Within this discussion she provided reassurance on the UK\u2019s commitment to maintain high regulatory standards and to seek arrangements which will support industries across the EU and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The roundtable attendees also discussed the implementation period, with the Prime Minister reaffirming the commitment on both sides of the negotiation for the terms to be agreed at the upcoming March European Council, which the business leaders welcomed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The meeting was also attended by Robin Walker, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union, and John Glen, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"attendees\">ATTENDEES:<\/h3>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda \u00c1lvarez-Pallete L\u00f3pez, Chairman &amp; CEO, Telef\u00f3nica S.A.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steffen Hoffmann, President of Bosch UK, Bosch<\/p>\n<p>Daniel K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd, Chairman of the Board of Directors, EPH<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e9ronique Laury, Chief Executive Officer, Kingfisher<\/p>\n<p>Angelique Magielse, Managing Director, Abellio<\/p>\n<p>Francesca McDonagh, Group Chief Executive Officer, Bank of Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ian Robertson, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Sales and Brand BMW, Aftersales BMW Group<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f8ren Skou, Chief Executive Officer, A.P. M\u00f8ller M\u00e6rsk<\/p>\n<p>J\u00f3zsef V\u00e1radi, Chief Executive Officer, Wizz Air<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May hosted key business leaders from across the EU at Downing Street to discuss progress in the UK\u2019s exit from the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}