Europe faces major questions about how to strengthen competitiveness, mobilise investment, build resilience and prepare for a rapidly changing world. Insurance has an important part to play in answering them.
Insurance Matters 2026 brings together perspectives from leading voices in policymaking, regulation, industry and public life on some of the choices facing Europe and the role insurance can play in turning ambition into delivery.
Rather than looking back at the past year, the publication looks ahead. Contributors explore Europe’s challenges from different perspectives, but their reflections converge around five closely connected themes: capital, protection, rules, technology and partnership.
From mobilising long-term savings and closing protection gaps to making regulation work better, harnessing new technologies responsibly and strengthening cooperation between the public and private sectors, the contributions highlight both the scale of the challenge and the opportunities ahead.
Insurance Matters 2026 features perspectives from European and international policymakers, central bankers, regulators, insurance leaders and voices from beyond the sector, including European Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque, EIB President Nadia Calviño, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, EIOPA Chair Petra Hielkema and OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann.
Together, their contributions underline a common message: Europe has the capital, expertise and ideas it needs. The challenge now is putting them to work.