Brussels Forum/2015

 Brussels Forum/2015(conference)

Date	20 March 2015 - 22 March 2015
Location	Cleve,  North Rhine-Westphalia,  Germany
Participants	Engy Abdelkadar, Ahmed Aboutaleb, Dirk Achten, Silvan Agius, Urban Ahlin, Anders Ahnlid, Hirotsugu Aida, Masahiro Akiyama, Rachid Al Kadi Al Ouahabi, Youssef Alami Idrissi, Bahiya Al-Amin Khalifa Kanoun, Andoni Aldekoa, Jen Algire, Leila Alieva, John Allen, Carlos Alzugaray Treto,  Youssef Amrani, Fernando Andresen Guimaraes, Simon Anholt, Niels Annen, Miguel Arias Cañete, Robert Atkinson, Gulnur Aybet, Thomas Bagger, Mark Bailey, Nick Baird, David Bakradze, Rosa Balfour, Jan Balliauw, Lisa Balter Saacks, Mpanzu Bamenga, Michal Baranowski, Elina Bardram, Astrid Barsk, Farhia Bashir Nur, Johan Basiliades, Denise Bauer, Toms Baumanis, Hartmut Baur, Marlène Beco, Annegret Bendiek, Liam Benham, Assia Bensalah Alaoui, Assia Benziane, Lora Berg, Benedetta Berti, Kristine Berzin, Carl Bildt, Emmanuel Birba, Michael Birnbaum, Paul Bledsoe, Valerie Boels, George Bogden, Rachel Bonfante, Julian Borger, Elizabeth Boswell Rega, Othmane Bouabid, Hendrik Bourgeois, Hande Bozatli, Volkan Bozkir, Sergio Branco, Ruprecht Brandis, Philip Breedlove, Sandra Breka, Børge Brende, Arthur Bright, Esther Brimmer, Elmar Brok, Stuart Brooks, Alexis Brouhns, Neil Brown (Lugar Diplomacy Institute), Zbigniew Brzezinski, Patricia Buckley, Piotr Buras, Reinhard Bütikofer, Cansu Çamlibel, Christopher Campbell, Arias Cañete, Pierre Cartuyvels, Vsevolod Chentsov, Vladimir Chizhov, Hyeonjung Choi, Derek Chollet, Sarah Claerhout, Ajenai Clemmons, Steve Clemons, Gilda Cobb-Hunter, Corinne Colloc'h, Maia Comeau, Alexander Corbeil, Kevin Cottrell, Stephen Covington, Charlie Cowen, Gregory Craig, Adrian Croft, Daniela Cuciureanu, Nelson Cunningham, Oliver Cusworth, François d'Alançon, Marcel Daniëls, Kim Darroch, Jean-Michel Dartaguiette, Swapan Dasgupta, Marta Dassù, Sudha David-Wilp, Jonathan Day, Sabina Dazdarevic, Marcus Vinicius De Freitas, Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, Gilles de Kerchove, Francois de Kerchove, Geert De Roep, Nicola de Santis, Thierry Déa, Gordana Delic, Alain Deneef, Elisabeth Denison, Hendrik Descheemaeker, Eléa Dion, Richard Doherty, Karen Donfried, Nina dos Santos, Sorin Ducaru, Alexander Dynkin, Mikulás Dzurinda, Lyubomira Efremova, Thomas Egebo, Karim El Aynaoui, Jessica Elledge, Vegard Ellefsen, Niels Engelschion, Paige Ennis, Peter Ericson, Steven Erlanger, Jonathan Evans, Sérgio Fausto, Allison Feikes, Vasyl Filipchuk, Nora Fisher Onar, Michèle Flournoy, Joerg Forbrig, Tina Fordham, Simon Fraser, Roland Freudenstein, Daniel Fried, Frank Friedman, Sondra Friedman, Michael Froman, Kaspars Galkins, Trevor Gandy, Fan Gang, Geraldine Gardner, Anthony Gardner, Kristalina Georgieva, Rabah Ghezali, Ronen Gil Or, Daniel Giorev, Terri Givens, Misha Glenny, Andrii Goncharuk, Thornike Gordadze, Nik Gowing, Heather Grabbe, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Charles Grant, Megan Greene, Christopher Gresse, Jason Grizzle, Daniel Gros, Eva Gross, Marc Grossman, Alexander Grushko, Karen Guberman, Suhasini Haider, Artur Harazim, Hari Hariharan, Nader Hariri, John Harris, Alexander Harriss, Allison Hart, Kat Hartman, Alcee Hastings, David Hauner, Douglas Hengel, Susan Herman, Peter Hill, Nicholas Hodac, Michael Hoffmann, Chris Hoornaert, Hanna Hopko, Greg Horowitt, Corinna Hörst, Adam Howard, Jonathan Hoyle, David Huber, Heico Hübner, Rosalind Hudnell, Tomi Huhtanen, David Ignatius, Toomas Ilves, Alina Inayeh, Masafumi Ishii, Len Ishmael, Shada Islam, Farahnaz Ispahani, Darrell Issa, Debbi Iwig, Bruce Jackson, Martin Jäger, Dhruva Jaishankar, Jackson Janes, Mahmoud Jibril, Soulaiman Jiddi, Mats Johansson, Zoran Jolevski, Gunnar Jungk, Renata Jungo-Bruengger, Kai Kaarelson, Riina Kaljurand, Matthew Kaminski, Steffen Kampeter, Choi Kang, Constance Kann, Janis Karklins, Keiichi Katakami, Yoriko Kawaguchi, Richard Kaye, Peter Kellner, Craig Kennedy, Wasima Khan, Marina Khatibi, Vadim Khramov, Roderich Kiesewetter, Adnan Kifayat, Chang-beom Kim, Gibum Kim, Thorsten Klassen, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Rachel Kleinfeld, Anastasia Klimovich, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Michael Köhler, Natalia Koliada, Bronislaw Komorowski, Daniel Korski, Andrei Kortunov, Konstantin Kosachev, Nada Kovalcikov, David Kram, Irina Krasovskaya, Ivan Krastev, Mikaela Kumlin-Granit, Charles Kupchan, Tatiana Lacerda Prazeres, Marwan Lahoud, Ellen Laipson, Christophe Lamfalussy, Karel Lannoo, Ahmed Larouz, Isabelle Lasserre, Elena Lazarou, Head of the Center for International Relations, Christian Leffler, Philippe Legrain, Michael Leigh, Marc Leland, Mark Leonard, Karim Lesina, Ian Lesser, Pamela Lesser, Bruno Lété, Pierre Lévy, Reta Jo Lewis, Robert Liberatore, Irena Lichnerowicz-Augustyn, Sonja Licht, Nicola Lightner, Gitte Lillelund Bech, Tod Lindberg, Cui Liru, Janice Little, David Livings, Timo Lochocki, Barry Lowenkron, Ioana Lung, Oana Lungescu, Aylin Lusi, Douglas Lute, Orysia Lutsevych, Bruno Macaes, Heike MacKerron, Beate Maeder-Metcalf, Henk Mahieu, Tefik Mahmut, Merle Maigre, Marta Makowska, Patrik Maldre, Maya Malkani, Ben Mallon, Cecilia Malmström, Daniela Marilungo, Benoit Marinus, Marta Martinelli, Jan Matthysen, Joanna Maycoc, Carlos Menchaca, Giles Merritt, Ann Mettler, Gian Giacomo Migone, Cindy Miller, Sara Miller Llana, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, Antonio Missiroli, Daniel Mitov, Federica Mogherini, Katrien Mondt, Simone Mori, Barkha Mossae, L. Daniel Mullaney, Michael Mullee, Jürgen Müller, Maria Mundt, Christopher Murphy, Penny Naas, Jacek Najder, Mehdi Nassih, Malgorzata Naumann, Evita Neefs, Elena Nemirovskaya, Gerlinde Niehus, Silviya Nitsova, Laurence Norman, John Normand, Natalie Nougayrède, Victoria Nuland, Tom Nuttall, Dorota Ostrowska-Cobas, Marc Otte, Elsy Oueis, Ana Palacio, Elena Panaritis, Nathalie Parent, Joseph Pearce, Gosia Pearson, Marc Pecsteen, Bo Pedersen, Leo Peeters, Nereo Penalver García, Tengiz Pkhaladze, Martin Plendl, Valentina Pop, Wolfgang Pordzik, Fabrice Pothier, Jeffrey Potts, Richard Powers, Lana Prlić, Hugh Pullen, Michael Punke, James Quigley, Gideon Rachman, Gyula Radics, Brian Rampp, Reena Ranger, Catherine Ray, Jean-Arthur Regibeau, Mike Reichert, Thomas Reynaert, Didier Reynders, Mohamed Rhaihat, Thomas Richter, Timothy Ridout, Maris Riekstins, Verena Ringler, Edgars Rinkevics, Ivan Rogers, Josh Rogin, Julia Roig, Ann Rondeau, Phil Rosenberg, Norbert Röttgen, Francois Roux, Daniel Runde, Susan Russell, Nicolò Russo Perez, Natalie Sabanadze, John Sammis, Sopio Samushia, Håvard Sandvik, Sharon Santos, Dev Sanyal, Nora Sarasola, Janis Sarts, Phillip Sauer, Tony Saunders, Marietje Schaake, Randall Scheunemann, Rebecca Schneider, Teri Schultz, Thomas Schulz, Isabelle Schwarz, Daniela Schwarzer, Stanislav Secrieru, Jeff Sessions, Brenda Shaffer, Hanna Shelest, Wendy Sherman, James Sherr, Landry Signé, Dave Sinardet, Andrew Small, Max Smeets, David Smick, Catherine Cornelius Smith, Chris Socha, Torbjorn Sohlstrom, Jaromir Sokolowski, George Soros, Peter Sparding, Peter Spiegel, Liron Spindel, Andris Spruds, Paul Stafford, Volker Stanzel, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Angela Stent, Philip Stephens, Bruce Stokes, Jens Stoltenberg, Mark Storella, Juwono Sudarsono, Goran Svilanović, Stephen Szabo, Fred Tanner, Zeynep Tanyildiz, Jonathan Taylor, Alastair Teare, Claudia Tecglen, Jan Techau, Sylke Tempel, Mischa Thompson, Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili, Nathalie Tocci, Daniel Trenchov, Rafal Trzaskowski, Hoang Anh Tuan, Emre Tuncalp, İlter Turan, Daniel Twining, Dimiter Tzantchev, Niki Tzavela, Urška Učakar, Kori Udovicki, Igor Ujhazi, Özgür Ünlühisarcikli, Aleksandra Urosev, Justin Vaïsse, Franciskus van Daele, Jef Van den Put, Johan Van Regemorter, Herman Van Rompuy, Jean-Pascal Van Ypersele, Rik Vanpeteghem, Jean-Luc Vanraes, Yanis Varoufakis, Armando Varricchio, Robert Vass, Ivan Vejvoda, Johan Verbeke, Jeroen Verhaeghe, Alexander Vershbow, Stephanie Vertongen, Ponka-We Victors, Luís Viegas Cardoso, Carlos Delgado Villanueva, Leslie Vinjamuri, George Voinovich, Ursula von der Leyen, Géza Andreas von Geyr, Eckart von Klaeden, Christoph Von Marschall, Alexandr Vondra, Remi Vullierme-Perrier, Celeste Wallander, Bruno Wattenbergh, Kirsten Weiss, Klaus Welle, Jeffrey Werner, J. Robinson West, Ted Whiteside, Xenia Wickett, Anna Wieslander, Steve Williams, Damon Wilson, Karen Wilson, Simon Worthington, Dirk Wouters, Georgina Wright, Guillaume Xavier-Bender, Yang, Selim Yenel, Estelle Youssouffa, Wojciech Zajaczkowski, Lamberto Zannier, Dieter Zetsche, Jiayi Zhou, Alberto Zilio
Perpetrators	German Marshall Fund
Description	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The 2015 main theme was (R)evolution.

The 2015 Brussels Forum, organized by the deep state The German Marshall Fund of the United States took place from 20th March to the 22nd March 2015 in Cleves, Germany.

Overview

By bringing together leading politicians, thinkers, journalists, and business representatives, Brussels Forum helps shape the transatlantic agenda. Participants include heads of state, senior officials from the European Union institutions and the member states, U.S. Cabinet officials, Congressional representatives, Parliamentarians, academics, and media from "the transatlantic community" The convening is mix of main public sessions and smaller breakout session in which participants explore in depth subjects of common interests under Chatham House rules.

Program

The main theme for 2015 was (R)evolution. The last decade has seen striking changes on both sides of the Atlantic, and at the global level. Basic assumptions about economic and political stability, energy, security, social models, and the pace of innovation have been challenged, and in some cases overturned. Old competitions have returned, and new partnerships have emerged. Fundamental changes in the nature of power — and its distribution — are part of this equation. The 10th annual Brussels Forum will explore how the world has changed, and how it is likely to change further over the next decade. How much of this change is evolution? How much is revolution? What does it tell us about future trends — and shocks — and the meaning for transatlantic and global strategy?

The main sessions for 2015 Brussels Forum include:

• Global Competition-Can Transatlantic Economies Compete?
• The Future of Trade and Investment
• Zero-Sum? Russia, Power Politics, and the Post-Cold War Era
• Great Powers in Asia: Is Strategic Competition the New Normal?
• Countering the New Wave of Terrorism at Home and Abroad
• New Visions for Energy Transition-Balancing Energy Security, Climate Change and Costs
• Thought Experiment: The Brussels Forum Agenda in 2025
• The Future of Conflict

 

Known Participants

74 of the 505 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Ahmed Aboutaleb	Mayor of Rotterdam. Attended the 2016 Bilderberg
John Allen	A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General
Carl Bildt	Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions.
Julian Borger	In July 2015 Julian Borger was diplomatic editor for The Guardian
Philip Breedlove	Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Børge Brende	Bilderberg Steering Committee, President of the World Economic Forum 2017-
Elmar Brok	lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular
Zbigniew Brzezinski	A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Reinhard Bütikofer	German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs
Steve Covington	DSO mentioned in the Integrity Initiative leak. "supported SACEURs in 15 NATO Summits, over 150 Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, and Chief of Defense Meetings, and executed high-level meetings in every country in Europe and Eurasia"
Gregory Craig	White House Counsel 2009-2010
Nelson Cunningham	Well-connected Kissinger associate
Kim Darroch	"A startling example of the politicisation of the civil service"
Marta Dassù	Deep state connected general director of the international activities of Aspen Institute Italy. NATO, Trilateral Commission, European Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies...
Karen Donfried	US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021
Mikuláš Dzurinda	Slovak politician with a heavy BF habit
Steven Erlanger	Deep state connected New York Times journalist. Ditchley Governor, Regular at the MSC and the Brussels Forum
Jonathan Evans	Director General of MI5, HSBC Director ...
Michèle Flournoy	US deep state actor
Simon Fraser	Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House.
Daniel Fried	Spooky US diplomat
Michael Froman	Serial WEF meeting visitor with many other SDS connections
Kristalina Georgieva	Bilderberg World Bank
Géza Andreas von Geyr	German diplomat with heavy MSC habit
Nik Gowing	UK Deep state connected TV journalist
Marc Grossman	Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs.
Hanna Hopko	WEF YGL spooky Ukrainian politician
David Ignatius	Attender of spooky "security" conferences
Toomas Ilves	President of Estonia with a lot of Deep State connections, including membership of the Munich Security Conference Advisory Council.
Bruce Jackson	US spook. His later career focused on accelerating the integration of the Western Balkan countries, Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia into the European Union and NATO. Member of the Henry Jackson Society.
Mats Johansson	Swedish editor mentioned as a person of interest by the Integrity Initiative, but died in 2017
Craig Kennedy	president of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014
Gilles de Kerchove	"EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator" since 2007
Roderich Kiesewetter	Former Bundeswehr general staff officer turned politician
Eckart von Klaeden	Triple Bilderberg German politician
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff	Vice President and Executive Director of the Berlin office at the German Marshall Fund, attender of a lot of deep staste events. The Alphen Group
Silvana Koch-Mehrin	WEF/Young Global Leaders 2005. Promising euro-politician from the German FDP until revelations that she had plagiarized large parts of her doctoral thesis.
Daniel Korski	British spook now dabbling in transforming the health sector
Ivan Krastev	George Soros protegé
Ellen Laipson	Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council between 1997 and 2002, later leading a number of spooky think tanks.
Mark Leonard	Suspected UK DSO who founded the European Council on Foreign Relations. A regular the the Brussels Forum, MSC, WEF AGM. Authored Britain™: Renewing our Identity
Ursula von der Leyen	Bilderberger President of the European Commission promoting Vaccine passports
Douglas Lute	Diplomat soldier on a lotof boards, US Ambassador to NATO 2013-2017
Cecilia Malmström	European Commissioner for Trade 2014-2019
Christoph von Marschall	Tranatlantic German journalist
Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo	Former acting Secretary General of NATO.
Federica Mogherini	Italian politician, WEF
Elena Nemirovskaya	Russian opposition Bilderberger who founded the Moscow School of Political Studies, financed by Western governments.
Natalie Nougayrède	British journalist who was exposed as working for the Integrity Initiative. Her reporting is replete with topics of importance to the UK deep state.
Victoria Nuland	High ranking member of the federal government. Served in the administrations of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
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Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Brussels Forum/2014	“The ultimate soft power instrument in the world is the Brussels Forum”	Carl Bildt	2014

 

Known Participants

74 of the 505 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Ahmed Aboutaleb	Mayor of Rotterdam. Attended the 2016 Bilderberg
John Allen	A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General
Carl Bildt	Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions.
Julian Borger	In July 2015 Julian Borger was diplomatic editor for The Guardian
Philip Breedlove	Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Børge Brende	Bilderberg Steering Committee, President of the World Economic Forum 2017-
Elmar Brok	lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular
Zbigniew Brzezinski	A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Reinhard Bütikofer	German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs
Steve Covington	DSO mentioned in the Integrity Initiative leak. "supported SACEURs in 15 NATO Summits, over 150 Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, and Chief of Defense Meetings, and executed high-level meetings in every country in Europe and Eurasia"
Gregory Craig	White House Counsel 2009-2010
Nelson Cunningham	Well-connected Kissinger associate
Kim Darroch	"A startling example of the politicisation of the civil service"
Marta Dassù	Deep state connected general director of the international activities of Aspen Institute Italy. NATO, Trilateral Commission, European Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies...
Karen Donfried	US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021
Mikuláš Dzurinda	Slovak politician with a heavy BF habit
Steven Erlanger	Deep state connected New York Times journalist. Ditchley Governor, Regular at the MSC and the Brussels Forum
Jonathan Evans	Director General of MI5, HSBC Director ...
Michèle Flournoy	US deep state actor
Simon Fraser	Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House.
Daniel Fried	Spooky US diplomat
Michael Froman	Serial WEF meeting visitor with many other SDS connections
Kristalina Georgieva	Bilderberg World Bank
Géza Andreas von Geyr	German diplomat with heavy MSC habit
Nik Gowing	UK Deep state connected TV journalist
Marc Grossman	Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs.
Hanna Hopko	WEF YGL spooky Ukrainian politician
David Ignatius	Attender of spooky "security" conferences
Toomas Ilves	President of Estonia with a lot of Deep State connections, including membership of the Munich Security Conference Advisory Council.
Bruce Jackson	US spook. His later career focused on accelerating the integration of the Western Balkan countries, Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia into the European Union and NATO. Member of the Henry Jackson Society.
Mats Johansson	Swedish editor mentioned as a person of interest by the Integrity Initiative, but died in 2017
Craig Kennedy	president of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014
Gilles de Kerchove	"EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator" since 2007
Roderich Kiesewetter	Former Bundeswehr general staff officer turned politician
Eckart von Klaeden	Triple Bilderberg German politician
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff	Vice President and Executive Director of the Berlin office at the German Marshall Fund, attender of a lot of deep staste events. The Alphen Group
Silvana Koch-Mehrin	WEF/Young Global Leaders 2005. Promising euro-politician from the German FDP until revelations that she had plagiarized large parts of her doctoral thesis.
Daniel Korski	British spook now dabbling in transforming the health sector
Ivan Krastev	George Soros protegé
Ellen Laipson	Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council between 1997 and 2002, later leading a number of spooky think tanks.
Mark Leonard	Suspected UK DSO who founded the European Council on Foreign Relations. A regular the the Brussels Forum, MSC, WEF AGM. Authored Britain™: Renewing our Identity
Ursula von der Leyen	Bilderberger President of the European Commission promoting Vaccine passports
Douglas Lute	Diplomat soldier on a lotof boards, US Ambassador to NATO 2013-2017
Cecilia Malmström	European Commissioner for Trade 2014-2019
Christoph von Marschall	Tranatlantic German journalist
Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo	Former acting Secretary General of NATO.
Federica Mogherini	Italian politician, WEF
Elena Nemirovskaya	Russian opposition Bilderberger who founded the Moscow School of Political Studies, financed by Western governments.
Natalie Nougayrède	British journalist who was exposed as working for the Integrity Initiative. Her reporting is replete with topics of importance to the UK deep state.
Victoria Nuland	High ranking member of the federal government. Served in the administrations of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
... further results

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