Brussels Forum/2010

 Brussels Forum/2010(Brussels Forum/Meeting)

Date	26 March 2010 - 28 March 2010
Location	Brussels,  Belgium
Participants	Morten Von Hanno Aasland, Reuben Abraham, Dirk Achten, Paul Adamson, Sheika Lubna Al-Qasimi, Madeleine Albright, Gilles Andreani, Pascale Andreani, Fernando Andresen Guimaraes, James Appathurai, Catherine Ashton, Ronald D. Asmus, Shlomo Avineri, Teodor Baconschi, Matthew Baldwin, Richard Baldwin, Ehud Barak, Edward Barker, Jose Manuel Barroso, Katinka Barysch, Mustafa Bayburtlu, Mohammed Belmahi, Grigory Berdinnikov, Ruth Berschens, Carl Bildt, Annika Binnendijk, Hans Binnendijk, Sven Biscop, Claudio Bisogniero, Karim Bitar, Ron Bloom, Julian Borger, Eric Bonse, Elmar Brok, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Arne Olav Brundtland, Charles Buchanan, Francois Bujon De L’estang, R. Nicholas Burns, Reinhard Bütikofer, Jerzy Buzek, Christopher Caldwell, Roel C. Campos, Robert Casey, Ipek Cem, Joyce Chang, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Eric Chevallier, Vladimir Chizhov, Jurgen Chrobog, Jo Coelmont, Roger Cohen, Charles Collyns, Mihnea Constantinescu, Steve Covington, Patrick Cronin, Ran Curiel, Ivo Daalder, Francois D’alancon, Marta Dassu, Douglas Davidson, Noel De Bruyne, Philippe De Buck, Louis De Fauconval, Karel De Gucht, Gilles De Kerchove, Jean De Ruyt, Koert Deboeuf, Pavol Demes, Ghislain D’hoop, Filip Dierckx, Paula Dobriansky, Thanos Dokos, Karen Donfried, Mia Doornaert, Xenia Dormandy, Lyse Doucet, William Drozdiak, Sorin Ducaru, Dan Dugas, Ryan Dwyer, Olof Ehrenkrona, Christoph Eichhorn, Patricia Ellis, Oded Eran, Steven Erlanger, Philippe Errera, Aitor Esteban, Simon Evenett, Steven Everts, Ahmet Evin, Christine Fair, William J. Fallon, Daniel Fata, Thomas Fischer, Cathleen Fisher, Stephen Flanagan, Robert Fonberg, Brian Forni, Simon Fraser, Roland Freudenstein, David Frost, Stefan Fuele, Yoichi Funabashi, Vesko Garcevic, Mircea Geoana, Amos Gilad, Mario Gioannini, Terri Givens, Misha Glenny, Francois Godement, Brent Goff, Nik Gowing, Sandro Gozi, Dominique Graber, Charles Grant, Ettore Greco, Jeremy Greenstock, Marc Grossman, Alexander Grushko, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Angel Gurria, Howard Gutman, Bernd Halling, Mariusz Handzlik, Sylvia Hartleif, Sasha Havlicek, Margaret Hawthorne, Connie Hedegaard, Charles Heeter, Steven Heinz, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Dennis Hightower, Fiona Hill, Jennifer Hillman, Rifat Hisarciklioglu, Chris Hoornaert, Robert Hormats, Matthew Mark Horn, Werner Hoyer, Jerry Hultin, Rod Hunter, Stuart Hurst, Albert Husniaux, David Ignatius, Toomas Ilves, Alina Inayeh, William Inboden, Vladislav Inozemtsev, Wolfgang Ischinger, Kazumasa Iwata, Bruce Jackson, Martin Jäger, Harold James, Jackson Janes, Josef Janning, Diana Janse, Vincent Jauvert, Alex Johnson, Henri Josserand, Thierry Josz, Sven Jurgenson, John Kantara, Cathleen Kelly, Craig Kennedy, Daniel Kerimi, Hilal Keskiner, Riaz Mohammad Khan, C.S. Kiang, Stephen Kimmel, Suat Kiniklioglu, Ron Kirk, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Reiner Klingholz, Hans-Ulrich Klose, Albert Koenders, Lena Kolarska-Bobinska, Jim Kolbe, Ingo Konrad, Fawzia Koofi, Kemal Koprulu, John Kornblum, Amalia Kostanyan, R. Andreas Kraemer, David J. Kramer, Irina Krasnovskaya, Ivan Krastev, Heinrich Kreft, Fumiaki Kubo, Jim Kunder, Ieva Kupce, Francois Lafond, Joseph Lai, Johannes Laitenberger, Stavros Lambrinidis, Pascal Lamy, Karel Lannoo, F. Stephen Larrabee, John Lechleiter, Robert Legvold, Marc Leland, Mark Leonard, Ian Lesser, Yves Leterme, Janusz Lewandowski, Robert Liberatore, Sonja Licht, Imants Liegis, Kadri Liik, Gitte Lillelund Bech, Tod Lindberg, Julian Lindley-French, Clare Lockhart, John Macdonell, Rui Machete, Peter Mackay, Heike Mackerron, Beate Maeder-Metcalf, Henk Mahieu, Cecile Maisonneuve, Jonathan Marcus, Michael Margelov, Joao Marques De Almeida, Maurizio Massari, Margarita Mathiopoulos, Michael Matthiessen, Jan Matthysen, Gale Mattox, Marie Mendras, Giles Merritt, Patrick Messerlin, James Michel, Larisa Minasian, Ognyan Minchev, Alessandro Minuto Rizzo, Kenjiro Monji, Vital Moreira, Miriam Teresa Mozgan, Dietmar Müller-Elmau, Sean Mulvaney, Damian F. Murphy, Geert Muylle, Erastus J.O. Mwencha, Vali Nasr, Evita Neefs, Elena Nemirovskaya, Hryhoriy Nemyria, James Neuger, Pauline Neville Jones, Robin Niblett, Dietmar Nietan, Natalie Nougayrede, Omid Nouripour, Nobutake Odano, Fadime Örgü, Andres Ortega, Vartan Oskanian, Marc Otte, Cem Özdemir, Soli Ozel, Ana Palacio, Angelos Pangratis, Joost Pauwelyn, Andris Pelss, Marc Perrin De Brichambaut, Gerhard Pfanzelter, Richard Phillips, Constanze Picking, Inna Pidluska, Andris Piebalgs, Petra Pinzler, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Ruprecht Polenz, Valentina Pop, Wolfgang Pordzik, Wilfried Porth, Carol Pottenger, Dan M. Price, Vesna Pusic, James Quigley, Joseph Quinlan, Gideon Rachman, Peter Rashish, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Jean-Arthur Regibeau, Olli Rehn, David Rennie, Changyong Rhee, John Richardson, Peter Ricketts, Airis Rikveilis, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Milan Rocen, Philippe Roland, Alexandros Rondos, John Rossant, Adam Rotfeld, Sylvie Rottman, Pierre Rousselin, Daniel Runde, Nicolò Russo Perez, Gerard Salole, Ozdem Sanberk, Andrei Sannikov, Marietje Schaake, Bente Aika Scheller, Randall Scheunemann, Helga Schmid, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Schneider, Susan Schwab, Tim Searchinger, Harinder Sekhon, Peter Semneby, John Sexton, Chrysostomos Sfatos, Jeremy Shapiro, Lilia Shevtsova, Grigory Shvedov, Radoslaw Sikorski, Jill Sinclair, Smita Singh, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Amanda Sloat, Andrew Small, Daniel Smith, Tom Smitham, Song Xinning, Peter Sorensen, Paul K. Stafford, Cliff Stammerman, Constanze Stelzenmueller, Angela Stent, Philip Stephens, Petra Stienen, Bruce Stokes, Rudolf Strohmeier, Kati Suominen, Roger Svensson, Goran Svilanović, Paweł Świeboda, Stephen Szabo, Reka Szemerkenyi, David Talbot, Patrick Thomas, Stefan Tinca, Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili, Osman Topcagic, Marc Trenteseau, Michael Turner, Daniel Twining, Niki Tzavela, Sinan Ulgen, Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, Peteris Ustubs, Jesper Vahr, Tomas Valasek, João Vale de Almeida, Franciskus Van Daele, Jef Van den put, Peter Van Praagh, Herman Van Rompuy, Stephen Vanackere, Jana Vanaveski, Marc Vanheukelen, Ivan Vejvoda, Erion Veliaj, Nicolas Veron, Alexander Vershbow, Leslie Vinjamuri, Romana Vlahutin, George Voinovich, Konstantin Von Eggert, Eckart Von Klaeden, Robert Von Rimscha, Jakob Von Weizsacker, Alexandr Vondra, Joshua Walker, William Wallace, Helen Wallace, Celeste Wallander, Wang Jisi, Tsuneo Watanabe, Peter Weilemann, Kenneth Weinstein, Jeffrey Werner, Geir Westgaard, Robert Wielaard, Lode Willems, Damon Wilson, Boguslaw Winid, Martin Winter, Maciej Witucki, Joseph Wood, Lynn Woolsey", Dirk Wouters, Rob Wrigley, Temuri Yakobashvili, Alexandros Yannis, Arseni Yatseniuk, Richard Youngs, Valdis Zatlers, Ernesto Zedillo, Lars Zimmermann, Robert Zoellick
Perpetrators	German Marshall Fund
Website	https://www.gmfus.org/2010
Description	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.

The Brussels Forum 2010 was held March 25-27, 2010, arranged by the CIA/NATO-close German Marshall Fund of the United States. It gathered over 400 politicians, spooks, journalists and think-tankers. The event itself, held under Chatham House rules, received as good as no coverage in corporate media. But the agenda topics did, the gathering giving a signal to the participants on how to speak, write and act on these transatlantic subjects.

Agenda

The sessions were held over 3 days, some were off the record.

• Afghanistan: a winnable war?
• The transatlantic relationship in a multipolar world: does it matter?
• From rescue to recovery: efforts to promote strong, sustainable, and balanced growth
• Pakistan: partner or problem?
• Euroatlantic security: reading from different scripts?
• Transatlantic approaches to innovation: what's on the agenda?
• Overcoming unemployment: the counterpunch of the economic crisis
• An ocean apart? transatlantic approaches to re-regulating finance
• Remarks by the co- chairmen of the u.s. congressional delegation and by the president of the European Parliament
• Introductory remarks—building a security architecture in Europe, by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO.
• Geostrategic consequences of the economic crisis
• Can we live on services alone? the future of manufacturing in the United States and Europe
• The Balkans 2010
• The rise of nuclear Iran
• Networking dinner
• Missile defense: are the differences irreconcilable?
• The Asian elephant in the transatlantic room
• A changing Turkey
• Eliminating hunger: transatlantic action for global food security
• Redesigning the western partnership with india
• Climate change: what will it take?
• The committee to save the world? the G20 and the future of global economic governance

Themes

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO, was lobbying for expensive new weapons systems:

A true joint Euro Atlantic missile defense would demonstrate our collective will, not only to defend ourselves against the new threats of today and tomorrow, but also to shoulder the responsibility...And it would be an opportunity for Europe to demonstrate, again, to the United States that the allies are ready and willing to invest in the capabilities we need to defend ourselves....But I believe there is yet another reason for developing missile defense. And that is to create a new dynamic in European and Euro Atlantic security....But we also need a decision from Russia, a decision to view missile defense as an opportunity rather than a threat.

President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso wanted to "share" as much information as possible with the United States:

“In the modern world internal and external security are indivisible. So a vital aspect of improving security cooperation counterterrorism is a sharing of information. We have been working hard in the U.S. to develop effective procedures to that end and we are fully committed to this. But it is essential to take into account the particular concerns of Europe on fundamental rights and privacy that is lesson of the recent vote by the European Parliament on the so-called SWIFT agreement.”
José Manuel Barroso (March 2010) 

The spooky Craig Kennedy remembered an obscure period in Barroso's CV:

“Some of us think of José Manuel Barroso as a former scholar at Georgetown University in Washington.”
Craig Kennedy,  German Marshall Fund (March 2010) 

 

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

94 of the 405 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Madeleine Albright	Ruthless politician, acquired and beloved by everyone named Clinton in the 1990s. Hero of Kosovo. Most powerful woman of all time according to ISGP's superclass index. When asked about half a million dead Iraqi children because of the sanctions she enforced, she replied "We think the price is worth it."
João Vale de Almeida	Diplomat with a heavy Brussels Forum habit
James Appathurai	NATO apparatchik who attended Bilderberg/2024
Catherine Ashton	A woman with zero qualification or experience of foreign affairs who, in 2009, was made 'High representative for Foreign Affairs and Security policy' in a deal which finally recognised that the position was NOT going to be given to Tony Blair
Ronald Asmus	Expanded NATO eastwards
Ehud Barak	Israeli spook who was Prime Minister of Israel from May 1999 to March 2001. Pal of Jeffrey Epstein.
José Manuel Barroso	Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission
Carl Bildt	Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions.
Hans Binnendijk	Dutch born academic and US deep state functionary, a member of Atlantic Council and RAND corporation, deeply involved with NATO.
Claudio Bisogniero	Italian diplomat
Julian Borger	In July 2015 Julian Borger was diplomatic editor for The Guardian
Elmar Brok	lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular
Arne Olav Brundtland	Single Bilderberger academic married to Norwegian PM and big pharma lobbyist Gro Harlem Brundtland.
Gro Harlem Brundtland	Deep state/WHO connected Prime Minister/DG, concerned about "too much freedom of speech"
R. Nicholas Burns	US Ambassador to NATO 2001-2005, plenty of other deep state connected roles
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"
Patrick Cronin	Cronin has worked in a number of think tanks connected to the US military-industrial complex.
Ghislain D'hoop	High ranking Belgian diplomat with connections to the Royal Household and UN drug commission
Ivo Daalder	USDSO who co-authored Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis, a book published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution about 9/11
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...
Paula Dobriansky	Spookily connected US politician
Karen Donfried	US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021
Lyse Doucet	Canadian journalist, Chatham House, heavy MSC habit
Oded Eran	Possibly spooky Israeli diplomat
Steven Erlanger	Deep state connected New York Times journalist. Ditchley Governor, Regular at the MSC and the Brussels Forum
Simon Fraser	Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House.
David Frost	British adviser and politician
Amos Gilad	Former head of the research division of Israel's military intelligence organisation, Aman
Nik Gowing	UK Deep state connected TV journalist
Sandro Gozi	Italian politician/MEP. Attended the 2017 Bilderberg
Jeremy Greenstock	UK diplomat who held a number of influential posts such as UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Chairman of the UNSC's Counter-Terrorism Committee, Brussels Forum
Marc Grossman	Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs.
Sasha Havlicek	CEO/Director of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Connie Hedegaard	Danish politician, multi-Bilderberger
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert	Dutch Defence Minister, connected to the 2015 Hawija bombing, lied about knowledge of any deaths and covered-up any juridical complicity with Mark Rutte & Bert Koenders.
Fiona Hill	Russophobic UK-born US foreign affairs specialist who has spent her whole career working to expand US influence in Eurasia
Robert D. Hormats	Deep state connected vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates.
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.
Wolfgang Ischinger	Spooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference
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.
Craig Kennedy	president of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014
Gilles de Kerchove	"EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator" since 2007
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
John Kornblum	US diplomat wo attended at least 4 Brussels Forums
David Kramer	US academic with multiple deep state connections. Conduit for giving the Steele Dossier to Buzzfeed.
Ivan Krastev	George Soros protegé
François Bujon de L'Estang	Diplomatic and defense adviser to Prime Minister Jacques Chirac.Trilateral Commission. French-American Foundation.
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