Speeches
Read the full text of CBI leaders' addresses on key business issues
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Neil Bentley's speech to CBI/Green Alliance Conference
'Businesses can be the innovators and implementers here, and not least those fast-growing small and medium sized businesses, who have the potential to deliver so much of the growth in the years ahead'
Tim Bradshaw's speech to the Design Forum
A design strategy needs to be active and ambitious, setting a clear direction of travel; focusing on realising opportunities for the UK and developing our competitive advantage; … dealing with the challenges we know lie ahead… and creating breathing space to tackle the opportunities and challenges we don’t yet know about
Abdullah Gül's speech to the CBI Annual Conference
'The forces of globalisation have made the international system much more interdependent and the world economy has become increasingly integrated. The global economic crisis has shown that it is not enough to keep our houses in order in an interdependent world. Today no country is immune to the adverse effects of the global economic crisis.'
William Hague's speech to the CBI Annual Conference
'Our Foreign and Commonwealth Office exists to defend and promote Britain’s national interests in their broadest sense. Today, more than at any other moment in recent history, that national interest requires us to use British diplomacy to support jobs and growth in our economy. That is what we have set about doing.'
David Cameron's speech to the CBI Annual Conference
'The fact that the markets are not convinced that Eurozone countries are able to pay their debts is what lies behind the Eurozone crisis - and the biggest immediate boost to British growth would be a clear resolution of that crisis.'
Sergio Marchionne's speech to the 2011 CBI Annual Conference
'I believe that if we in this room – leaders from the worlds of business, finance and politics – have the ability to imagine a future of growth and development for our enterprises and for our nations, then we also have a collective responsibility to make that vision a reality.'
