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| − | Morten Von Hanno Aasland,Paul Adamson,Asaf Agmon,Michael Ahearn,Urban Ahlin,Irakli Alasania,Simon Allan,Joaquin Almunia,Celso Amorim,Wendy Anderson,Fernando Andresen Guimaraes,Niels Annen,Anne Applebaum,Uzi Arad,Ron Asmus,Yves Auffret,Shlomo Avineri,Stefanie Babst,Indrani Bagchi,Kurt Bardella,Jose Manuel Barroso,Vaclav Bartuska,Katinka Barysch,Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco,Gitte Lillelund Bech,Robert Bennett,Uday Bhaskar,Stephen Biegun,Carl Bildt,Hidajet Bicevic,Sven Biscop,Claudio Bisogniero,Jochen Bittner,Julian Borger,Spencer Boyer,Elmar Brok,Brooke Buchanan,Philippe De Buck,Christopher Burghardt,Guenter Burghardt,Wayne Bush,Reinhard Bütikofer,Christopher Caldwell,Robert Casey,Marc Champion,Joyce Chang,Eric Chevallier,Vladimir Chizhov,Jurgen Chrobog,Jim Cloos,Nuri Colakoglu,Mary Jane Collipriest,Lorne Cook,Robert Cooper,Steve Covington,Gregory Craig,Pieter De Crem,Ran Curiel,Francois D’alancon,Massimo D’alema,Marta Dassu,Etienne Davignon,Marc Perrin De Brichambaut,Koert Debeuf,Milica Delevic,Raoul Delcorde,Pavol Demes,Filip Dierckx,Thanos Dokos,Karen Donfried,Francois-Xavier De Donnea,Jeroen Doomernik,Mia Doornaert,Xenia Dormandy,Lyse Doucet,Dan Drezner,William Drozdiak,Sorin Ducaru,Edmund Duckwitz,Ryan Dwyer,Bill Echikson,Markus Ederer,Christoph Eichhorn,Juurd Eijsvoogel,Stewart Eldon,James Elles,Matyas | + | Morten Von Hanno Aasland,Paul Adamson,Asaf Agmon,Michael Ahearn,Urban Ahlin,Irakli Alasania,Simon Allan,Joaquin Almunia,Celso Amorim,Wendy Anderson,Fernando Andresen Guimaraes,Niels Annen,Anne Applebaum,Uzi Arad,Ron Asmus,Yves Auffret,Shlomo Avineri,Stefanie Babst,Indrani Bagchi,Kurt Bardella,Jose Manuel Barroso,Vaclav Bartuska,Katinka Barysch,Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco,Gitte Lillelund Bech,Robert Bennett,Uday Bhaskar,Stephen Biegun,Carl Bildt,Hidajet Bicevic,Sven Biscop,Claudio Bisogniero,Jochen Bittner,Julian Borger,Spencer Boyer,Elmar Brok,Brooke Buchanan,Philippe De Buck,Christopher Burghardt,Guenter Burghardt,Wayne Bush,Reinhard Bütikofer,Christopher Caldwell,Robert Casey,Marc Champion,Joyce Chang,Eric Chevallier,Vladimir Chizhov,Jurgen Chrobog,Jim Cloos,Nuri Colakoglu,Mary Jane Collipriest,Lorne Cook,Robert Cooper,Steve Covington,Gregory Craig,Pieter De Crem,Ran Curiel,Francois D’alancon,Massimo D’alema,Marta Dassu,Etienne Davignon,Marc Perrin De Brichambaut,Koert Debeuf,Milica Delevic,Raoul Delcorde,Pavol Demes,Filip Dierckx,Thanos Dokos,Karen Donfried,Francois-Xavier De Donnea,Jeroen Doomernik,Mia Doornaert,Xenia Dormandy,Lyse Doucet,Dan Drezner,William Drozdiak,Sorin Ducaru,Edmund Duckwitz,Ryan Dwyer,Bill Echikson,Markus Ederer,Christoph Eichhorn,Juurd Eijsvoogel,Stewart Eldon,James Elles,Matyas Eörsi,Oded Eran,Steven Erlanger,Mark Esper,Steven Everts,Thomas Eymond-Laritaz,Daniel Fata,Ulrik Federspiel,Maria José Fialho,Mark Fischer,Thomas Fischer,Daniel Fisk,Helga Flores Trejo,Richard Fontaine,Tina Fordham,Simon Fraser,Roland Freudenstein,Federico Fubini,Mircea Dan Geoana,Reuel Gerecht,Mario Gioannini,Peter Gitmark,Hanns Glatz,Nigar Goksel,Ana Maria Gomes,Ulysse Gosset,Nik Gowing,Heather Grabbe,Charles Grant,Marc Grossman,Fredy Gsteiger,Ignasi Guardans Cambo,Karel De Gucht,Ulrike Guérot,Shekhar Gupta,Karl-Theodor Freiherr Zu Guttenberg,Vivien Haig,Bernd Halling,Hironori Hamanaka,James Harding,Alcee Hastings,Soeren Hermansen,Annette Heuser,Lindsey Hilsum,Brad Hoaglun,Richard Holbrooke,Chris Hoornaert,Matthew Mark Horn,Jerry Hultin,Albert Husniaux,Jana Hybaskova,Temur Iakobashvili,Alina Inayeh,William Inboden,Nike Irvin,Darrell Issa,Oliver Ivanović,Bruce Jackson,Martin Jäger,Jackson Janes,Vincent Jauvert,Jin Canrong,Jofi Joseph,Barbara Judge,Adela Kadlecova,Robert Kagan,Gyorgy Kakuk,Udo Van Kampen,Jonathan Katz,Atul Kaushik,Peter-Hans Keilbach,Craig Kennedy,Richard Kiessler,Stephen Kimmel,Ron Kind,Suat Kiniklioglu,Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff,Rachel Kleinfeld,Gerald Knaus,Jim Kolbe,Kemal Koprulu,John C. Kornblum,Rey Koslowski,Karolina Kottova,Irina Krasovskaya,Heinrich Kreft,Chad Kreikemeier,Veronika Kuchynova-Smigolova,Ieva Kupce,Francois Lafond,Joseph Lai,Johannes Laitenberger,Miroslav Lajcak,Alexander Lambsdorff,Remzi Lani,Karel Lannoo,F. Stephen Larrabee,Noel Lateef,Jonathan Laurence,Sergei Lavrov,Jean-Pierre Lehmann,Peter-Carlo Lehrell,Marc Leland,Mark Leonard,Ian Lesser,Pierre Lévy,Robert Liberatore,Kadri Liik,Simon Limage,Tod Lindberg,Edward Llewellyn,Clare Lockhart,Bernhard Lorentz,David Lustig,Orysia Lutsevych,Peter MacKay,Heike Mackerron,Beate Maeder-Metcalf,Mark Malloch-Brown,Erika Mann,Jonathan Marcus,Hans Martens,Mel R. Martinez,Margarita Mathiopoulos,Shavit Matias,Maurizio Massari,Michael Matthiessen,Jan Matthysen,Gale Mattox,John McCain,Raffaella Menichini,Cesare Merlini,Giles Merritt,Patrick Messerlin,Tatiana Mitrova,Liz Mohn,Kenjiro Monji,Marek Mora,Edward Mortimer,Virginia Mucchi,Sean Mulvaney,Christopher W. Murray,Geert Muylle,Penny Naas,Elena Nemirovskaya,Hryhoriy Nemyria,James Neuger,Pauline Neville Jones,Robin Niblett,Nathalie Nougayrede,Nobutake Odano,Amir Oren,Andres Ortega,Marc Otte,Cem Özdemir,Emre Ozdemir,Soli Ozel,Ana Palacio,Marilisa Palumbo,Sanjay Parekh,Phil Park,Gerhard Pfanzelter,Jean Pisani-Ferry,Gunter Pleuger,Tomas Pojar,Ruprecht Polenz,Alice Poole,Valentina Pop,Andrei Popov,Wolfgang Pordzik,Richard Powers,Vesna Pusić,Joseph P. Quinlan,Gideon Rachman,Zalmai Rasoul,Olli Rehn,David Rennie,Alex Reyn,Irmtraud Richardson,John B. Richardson,John Richardson,Edgars Rinkēvičs,James Risch,Milan Rocen,Alexandros Rondos,Pierre Rousselin,Daniel Runde,Artur Runge-Metzger,Jacques Rupnik,Jean De Ruyt,Mikheil Saakashvili,Gerard Salole,Ozdem Sanberk,Andrei Sannikov,Andre Sapir,Mary Elise Sarotte,Janis Sarts,Wolfgang Schauble,Jaap De Hoop Scheffer,Randall Scheunemann,Helga Schmid,Gary Schmitt,Wolfgang Schmitt,Jiri Schneider,Stephen Schneider,Karel Schwarzenberg,Tim Searchinger,Amber Sechrist,Peter Semneby,Jeanne Shaheen,Kamalesh Sharma,Jamie Shea,Radoslaw Sikorski,Stefano Silvestri,Anne-Marie Slaughter,Amanda Sloat,Andrew Small,Eugeniusz Smolar,Vladimir Socor,Javier Solana,Song Xinning,Thomas Spiller,Volker Stanzel,Tommy Steiner,Constanze Stelzenmuller,Angela Stent,Philip Stephens,Petra Stienen,Bruce Stokes,Kati Suominen,Roger Svensson,Paweł Świeboda,Stephen Szabo,Reka Szemerkenyi,Tomohiko Taniguchi,Pirkka Tapiola,Paul Taylor,Ellen Tauscher,Stefan Theil,Gunter Thielen,Mischa Thompson,Arve Thorvik,Dietrich Thranhardt,Ansgar Tietmeyer,Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili,Mirek Topolanek,Ian Traynor,Michito Tsuruoka,Fred Turner,Michael Turner,Daniel Twining,Sinan Ulgen,Ozgur Unluhisarcikli,Vygaudas Usackas,Peteris Ustubs,Tomas Valasek,Jef Van den put,Tangui Van Der Elst,Raf Van Hellemont,Mabel Van Oranje,Andris Pelss,Peter Van Praagh,Herman Van Rompuy,Marc Vanheukelen,John Vassallo,Ivan Vejvoda,Gunter Verheugen,James Villeneuve,Leslie Vinjamuri,George Voinovich,Kurt Volker,Eckart Von Klaeden,Alexandr Vondra,William Wallace,Axel Weber,Peter Weilemann,Gert Weisskirchen,Jeff Werner,Maja Wessels,Geir Westgaard,Shirin Wheeler,Serge Wibaut,Robert Wielaard,Lodewijk Willems,Martin Winter,Joseph Wood,Suzanne Woolsey,Dirk Wouters,Rob Wrigley,John Wyles,Tadamichi Yamamoto,Arsenyi Yatseniuk,Amberin Zaman,Valdis Zatlers,Samuel Zbogar,Diane Zeleny,Zhao Quansheng,Emanuelis Zingeris,Robert Zoellick,Salome Zourabichvili |
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| − | Participants.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094902/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF_PARTICIPANTS09.pdf</ref> | + | The '''Brussels Forum 2009''' was held March 20-22, 2009, arranged by the [[CIA]]/[[NATO]]-close [[German Marshall Fund of the United States]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094817/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF-Participants-List_2011_web_25mar2.pdf</ref><ref>[[File:Brussels Forum-Participants-List 2011.pdf]] saved copy</ref>. It gathered over 400 politicians, spooks, journalists and [[academic|think-tankers]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094839/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/Participants-List_10.pdf</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094902/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF_PARTICIPANTS09.pdf</ref> 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. |
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| + | The sessions were a mix of on and [[off the record]].<ref>https://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF_agenda09_1.pdf</ref> | ||
| + | *"Shared destiny": how relevant is [[Europe]] to the [[United States]] under [[Obama]]? | ||
| + | *From Blame to responsibility: [[Europe]]'s new [[energy]] paradigm | ||
| + | *Neighbor, Partner, ally? [[Israel]]'s relations with the [[EU]] and NATO | ||
| + | *The technological response to [[climate change]] | ||
| + | *[[Asia]] rising | ||
| + | *A conversation with [[Russia]] | ||
| + | *Battling the crisis: high time for [[transatlantic]] leadership | ||
| + | *[[Afghanistan]] and [[Pakistan]]: what will it take to get it right? | ||
| + | *Trends and Prospects for [[immigration]] reform in Europe and the [[United States]] | ||
| + | *Quo vadis [[Bosnia]]? | ||
| + | *[[Climate change]] — Policy instruments | ||
| + | *Transatlantic responses to the [[2008 Financial Crisis|financial crisis]] | ||
| + | *Transatlantic responses to the [[2008 Financial Crisis|financial crisis]] | ||
| + | *Competing for land — how to Balance Food and energy Security in the era of Global warming | ||
| + | *Is aid to [[Africa]] drying Up? | ||
| + | *Will the economic crisis split [[Europe]]? | ||
| + | *[[Ukraine]]: at a crossroads again | ||
| + | *[[Turkey]] Before the Obama visit | ||
| + | *[[Belarus]]: isolation vs. engagement | ||
| + | *At a crossroads: are the transatlantic economies converging or drifting apart? | ||
| + | *Economic multilateralism: how do we Make it work | ||
| + | *20 years after the Fall of the [[Iron Curtain]] | ||
| + | *[[Georgia]]-Six Months after the war: where do things Stand? | ||
| + | *Engaging difficult actors in the Middle east | ||
| + | *The intersection of law and national security: a conversation | ||
| + | *Companies at the cutting edge of innovation | ||
| + | *[[NATO]] at 60 | ||
| + | *Fiscal Policy after the [[2008 Financial Crisis|financial crisis]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:12, 30 May 2024
The Brussels Forum 2009 was held March 20-22, 2009, arranged by the CIA/NATO-close German Marshall Fund of the United States[1][2]. It gathered over 400 politicians, spooks, journalists and think-tankers.[3][4] 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
| In a speech, military-industrial complex stalwart John McCain explained why the war in Afghanistan needed "new resources". |
The sessions were a mix of on and off the record.[5]
- "Shared destiny": how relevant is Europe to the United States under Obama?
- From Blame to responsibility: Europe's new energy paradigm
- Neighbor, Partner, ally? Israel's relations with the EU and NATO
- The technological response to climate change
- Asia rising
- A conversation with Russia
- Battling the crisis: high time for transatlantic leadership
- Afghanistan and Pakistan: what will it take to get it right?
- Trends and Prospects for immigration reform in Europe and the United States
- Quo vadis Bosnia?
- Climate change — Policy instruments
- Transatlantic responses to the financial crisis
- Transatlantic responses to the financial crisis
- Competing for land — how to Balance Food and energy Security in the era of Global warming
- Is aid to Africa drying Up?
- Will the economic crisis split Europe?
- Ukraine: at a crossroads again
- Turkey Before the Obama visit
- Belarus: isolation vs. engagement
- At a crossroads: are the transatlantic economies converging or drifting apart?
- Economic multilateralism: how do we Make it work
- 20 years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain
- Georgia-Six Months after the war: where do things Stand?
- Engaging difficult actors in the Middle east
- The intersection of law and national security: a conversation
- Companies at the cutting edge of innovation
- NATO at 60
- Fiscal Policy after the financial crisis
Known Participants
85 of the 386 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
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| Anne Applebaum | Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core, didn’t think that Hunter Biden's laptop qualified as a major news story. |
| José Manuel Barroso | Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission |
| Robert Bennett | Mormon US Senator who attended Brussels Forums |
| Carl Bildt | Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions. |
| 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 |
| Mark Malloch Brown | George Soros-protegé |
| Reinhard Bütikofer | German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs |
| Robert Cooper | UK diplomat with a string of interesting roles. "One of the top 100 "public intellectuals" in the world"... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Étienne Davignon | Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president |
| Milica Delević-Đilas | Serbian economist |
| Karen Donfried | US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021 |
| Lyse Doucet | Canadian journalist, Chatham House, heavy MSC habit |
| Stewart Eldon | UK DSO interested in "counter-corruption" and "National Security". Former UK/Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council, Institute for Statecraft |
| James Elles | A member of the European Parliament |
| 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 |
| Ulrik Federspiel | Danish diplomat, Bilderberg Steering committee |
| Simon Fraser | Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House. |
| Nik Gowing | UK Deep state connected TV journalist |
| Marc Grossman | Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs. |
| Ignasi Guardans | |
| Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Born with silver spoon as scion of the zu Guttenberg family, but blew his political career in 2011 after academic plagiarism was discovered. Since then has stayed in spooky think-tanks. |
| Ulrike Guérot | Deep state operative who was persecuted after she publicly dissented from SDS policy. |
| Lindsey Hilsum | UK journalist who was at the II-backed Tackling Tools of Malign Influence meeting |
| Richard Holbrooke | Bilderberg/Steering committee, deep state operative |
| 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. |
| Robert Kagan | Co-founder of the Project for the New American Century |
| Udo van Kampen | Journalist, Atlantik-Brücke member, visited the Brussels Forum 2007-2009 |
| Craig Kennedy | president of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014 |
| 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 |
| Mıroslav Lajčák | Slovak diplomat, who attended all the Munich Security Conferences from 2013 to 2020 |
| Stephen Larrabee | RAND political scientist, MSC |
| Sergei Lavrov | Russian diplomat and very competent Foreign Minister |
| 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 |
| Kadri Liik | Estonian journalist Russia’s Strategy on NATO'S Eastern and Southern Flanks replete with fellow IfS UK inner core members, ECFR |
| Edward Llewellyn | UK Diplomat, Eton, New College Oxford, Notting Hill Set |
| Jonathan Marcus | A BBC journalist whose name is on a list of journalists leaked from the Integrity Initiative in 2018. |
| John McCain | Vietnam War veteran, sang about bombing Iran to voters, called the JFK assassination "the intervention". appears on a picture with Simon Elliot. |
| Cesare Merlini | Italian academic, Brookings Institute |
| Liz Mohn | German billionaire businesswoman friend of Angela Merkel |
| Elena Nemirovskaya | Russian opposition Bilderberger who founded the Moscow School of Political Studies, financed by Western governments. |
| Hryhoriy Nemyria | Ukranian politician with several Brussels Forum meetings |
| Pauline Neville-Jones | BBC governor, Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee |
| ... further results | |
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References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094817/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF-Participants-List_2011_web_25mar2.pdf
- ↑ File:Brussels Forum-Participants-List 2011.pdf saved copy
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094839/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/Participants-List_10.pdf
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170206094902/http://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF_PARTICIPANTS09.pdf
- ↑ https://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/BF_agenda09_1.pdf
