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David Marsh | Breaking Out of Europe’s Logjam

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Lecture Global/Intercultural Other

Thu, Mar 5, 2026

4:30 PM – 6 PM EST (GMT-5)

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Under outward pressure, Europe is supposed to unify. During four years of attrition from Russia, China and the US, this adage has been only partially borne out. Germany’s decision greatly to increase defense spending has been a sensible reaction to fears of America abandonment. But Europe remains beset by weak growth and inability to integrate. Any external relaxation - through ‘peak Trump’, a Russo-Ukrainian settlement or Chinese blandishments - will damp solidarity and drive the Europeans back to indecisiveness. The future depends on ‘variable geometry’ –smaller groupings of countries within and outside the EU banding together for a common cause . The path will be thorny but it is the only alternative.

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David Marsh

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

OMFIF

David Marsh is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of OMFIF. Before starting at OMFIF in  late 2009,  he worked for City merchant bank Robert Fleming, corporate finance boutique Hawkpoint,  German management consultancy Droege and London investment firm London & Oxford. Marsh took over the chairmanship from John Plender in January 2018 having been Managing Director since 2014. He reverted to an executive role after John Orchard stepped down in October 2024 following five years as Chief Executive Officer.

Marsh is a visiting Professor at Sheffield University and King’s College London. He is former co-founder, chairman and deputy chairman of the German-British Forum. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2000 and was awarded the German Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 2003.

He started his career at Reuters in 1973 having graduated with a BA in chemistry from The Queen’s College Oxford. Between 1978 and 1995 he worked for the Financial Times in France and Germany, latterly as European Editor in London. Marsh has written six books on politics and economics, mainly on Germany and Europe. His seventh book, Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World,  will be published by Yale University Press in autumn 2025.


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