valdis: good morning.egards to the vaccination campaign, more than 70% of the adult population in europe are vaccinated. what was important in this is the european union was acting on this as a whole so on behalf of the 27 member states who are securing vaccines, and that's what helps to secure this availability. because it is clear that the biggest and richest e.u. countries will secure vaccines on their own, but not the smallest and less developed countries. we need to make sure vaccines are available across europe and have an effective vaccination campaign. tom: how did you sell unvaccinated people? "the new york times" is a brilliant article on the failure of america to invents the unvaccinated to get -- convince unvaccinated to get vaccinated. valdis: it must be said, if you look at the vaccination rates in the e.u., they are also uneven. there are a number of countries which are lagging behind. there is still lots of work in the e.u. to convince the population to vaccinate, and we are still in this w

valdis: good morning.e having very intensive engagement with the biden administration and working in many different areas. indeed, america is back, and we saw it in many important initiatives, like the biden administration rejoining the errors agreement, helping to reach international deal on business taxation, on the oecd framework on the airbus-boeing dispute, just to give a couple of examples. of course, there is more from the trump era which we need to resolve in the trade area, and tomorrow we are concentrating on a forward moving agenda and how we can cooperate in those areas. annmarie: the french want to postpone tomorrow's meeting because of this submarine spat. for the most part, the eu was also vexed with the united states over this. why was the eu also so upset? valdis: indeed, there was disappointment in the eu concerning how this was handled because you was neither consulted -- because eu was neither consulted, nor even informed about the developments, so there were some repercussions in the e

later today on this show, at 7:15 am, we are lucky to have valdis dombrovskis to talk about the trade aspect, the head of the trade negotiations for the european commission. jonathan: have you ever heard of this weed green index? dusty sweet green index backs the -- the sweet green index? let's get to it now. charles kantor of neuberger berman come -- neuberger berman, senior portfolio manager and author of the sweet green index. what's going on, charles? charles: lots of people coming back online. it feels good to get some vibrancy back into midtown, and folks are coming slowly back to work, and kids are going back to school. so hopefully it is returned to normal slowly. tom: i look where we are right now in the sequence of interviews i've done with thinkers who keep going back to the dreaded t word, technology. you and your team are expert at this, the overlay of technology, microsoft, amazon, whole foods. but unseen as well. tell us about the unseen technology that makes you a bull owning stocks. charles: i think it goes to quality of businesses, and sometimes references forward th