At this Policy Dialogue, an expert panel assessed Europe’s economic prospects for 2018, including positive and negative factors likely to affect growth. Marco Buti, European Commission Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, presented the Commission’s forecast for growth and jobs in 2018, while Marc Lemaître, European Commission Director-General for Regional and Urban Policy, outlined the Commission’s perspective on the state of Europe’s economic, social and territorial cohesion in 2018.