Brussels Forum/2011

 Brussels Forum/2011(Brussels Forum/Meeting)

Date	25 March, 2011 - 27 March, 2011
Location	Brussels,  Belgium
Participants	Morten Von Hanno Aasland, Muhammad Abushaqra, Paul Adamson, Ho-Young Ahn, Oumhani Alaoui, Irakli Alasania, Emiliano Alessandri, Anne Applebaum, Uzi Arad, Catherine Ashton, Bogdan Aurescu, Shlomo Avineri, Alyssa Ayres, Egemen Bagis, Jose Manuel Barroso, Katinka Barysch, Antonella Battaglini, Cornell Belcher, Mohammed Belmahi, Robert Bennett, Assia Bensalah Alaoui, Ruth Berschens, C. Uday Bhaskar, Stephen Biegun, Hans Binnendijk, Sanoussi Bilal, Carl Bildt, Allison Blakely, Irina Bogdanova, Julian Borger, Victor Borges, Josep Borrell Fontelles, Marcin Bosacki, Ruprecht Brandis, Franziska Brantner, Jeffries Briginshaw, Gordon Brown, Jason Bruder, Charles Buchanan, Reinhard Bütikofer, Jerzy Buzek, Christopher Caldwell, Margaret Carlson, Joyce Chang, Samuel Charap, Howard Chase, Peter Chase, Vladimir Chizhov, Dimitria Clayton, Iain Conn, Charles Cook, Robert Cooper, Svante Cornell, Thomas Cottier, Francois D’alancon, Etienne Davignon, Marta Dassu, Pieter De Crem, Karel De Gucht, Alain Dehaze, Charles-Henri Delcour, Gilles De Kerchove, Jean De Ruyt, Nicola De Santis, Raoul Delcorde, Gordana Delic, Pavol Demes, Hendrik Descheemaeker, Ghislain D’hoop, Filip Dierckx, Paula Dobriansky, Richard Doherty, Thanos Dokos, Karen Donfried, Mia Doornaert, Xenia Dormandy, Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, Peter Draper, Ryan Dwyer, Mikulas Dzurinda, Olof Ehrenkrona, Barry Eichengreen, Christoph Eichhorn, Ari Epstein, Stewart Eldon, Alexander Ellis, Patricia Ellis, Ulf Emanuelli, Gaye Erbatur, Fredrik Erixon, Steven Erlanger, Steven Everts, Nabil Fahmy, Daniel Fata, Cathleen Fisher, Richard Fisher, Mark Fischer, Lorna Fitzsimons, Glyn Ford, Rana Foroohar, Iulian Fota, Liam Fox, Simon Fraser, Roland Freudenstein, David Frost, Fu Ying, Stefan Fuele, Akiko Fukushima, Vesko Garcevic, Timothy Garton Ash, William Garvelink, Mircea Geoana, Mario Gioannini, Terri Givens, Nigar Goksel, James Goldgeier, Philip Gordon, Nik Gowing, Heather Grabbe, Dominique Graber, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Charles Grant, Ettore Greco, Marc Grossman, Marc Grynberg, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Tayyibe Gulek Domac, Zeynep Gurel, Ahmet Gursel, Howard Gutman, Vivien Haig, Bernd Halling, Michael Hansen, Susanne Hartig, Kathryn Hauser, Sasha Havlicek, Teiji Hayashi, Charles Heeter, Fiona Hill, Torgny Holmgren, Chris Hoornaert, Robert Hormats, Matthew Mark Horn, Werner Hoyer, Tomi Huhtanen, David Ignatius, Alina Inayeh, Vladislav Inozemtsev, Wolfgang Ischinger, Masafumi Ishii, Bruce Jackson, Martin Jäger, Jackson Janes, Jalil Jilani, Alex Johnson, Richard Jones, Bahadir Kaleagasi, Malgorzata Kaluzynska, Emad Kamel, Hekmat Karzai, Peter Kellner, William E. Kennard, Craig Kennedy, Stephen Kimmel, Matthew King, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Hans-Ulrich Klose, Andrei Kluyev, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Jim Kolbe, Ingo Konrad, Stefan Kornelius, David Kramer, Irina Krasovskaya, Ivan Krastev, Beata Krawiec-Peksa, Heinrich Kreft, Chad Kreikemeier, James Kunder, Anton La Guardia, Francois Lafond, Johannes Laitenberger, Miroslav Lajcak, Pascal Lamy, Remzi Lani, Linda Lanzillotta, F. Stephen Larrabee, Barbara Lee, Christian Leffler, Michael Leigh, Marc Leland, Mark Leonard, Vladimir Leontiev, Ian Lesser, Yves Leterme, Janusz Lewandowski, European Commission, Sonja Licht, Kadri Liik, Tod Lindberg, Anders Lindberg, Patricia Loison, Igor Luksic, Fydor Lukyanov, Luc Luwel, Heike Mackerron, Henk Mahieu, Joseph Maila, Cecile Maisonneuve, Hans Martens, Wilfried Martens, Margarita Mathiopoulos, Alan Matthews, Michael Matthiessen, Gale Mattox, Gregory Meeks, Sharon Memis, Raffaella Menichini Bentson, Giles Merritt, Patrick Messerlin, Ann Mettler, Andrew Michta, Gian Giacomo Migone, Ognyan Minchev, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, Nickolay Mladenov, Stela Mocan, Claude Moraes, Andrew Moravcsik, Vital Moreira, Simone Mori, L. Daniel Mullaney, Dietmar Müller-Elmau, Sean Mulvaney, Geert Muylle, Uri Naaman, Nahida Nakad, Shigeo Nakamura, Lucy E. Nation, Elena Nemirovskaya, Hryhoriy Nemyria, James Neuger, Robin Niblett, Natalie Nougayrede, Omid Nouripour, Glenn Nye, Nobutake Odano, Sophie Olsson, Pierce O’reilly, Fadime Orgu, Andres Ortega, Soli Ozel, Artis Pabriks, Ivana Pajevic, Gleb Pavlovsky, Michel Pebereau, Aleksandar Pejovic, Andris Pelss, Milagros Perez Oliva, Marc Perrin De Brichambaut, Richard Phillips, Andris Piebalgs, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Ruprecht Polenz, Valentina Pop, Wolfgang Pordzik, Wilfried Porth, David Post, Fabrice Pothier, Daniel Price, James Quigley, Joseph Quinlan, Ahmed Rashid, Jean-Arthur Regibeau, Mike Reichert, Janusz Reiter, John Richardson, Barbara Ridpath, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Milan Rocen, Alexandros Rondos, Jacek Rostowski, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Sylvie Rottman, Pierre Rousselin, Daniel Runde, Sergey Ryabkov, Ryo Sahashi, Mahmoud Salem, Gerard Salole, Richard Salt, Ozdem Sanberk, Andrei Sannikov, Stefano Sannino, Andre Sapir, Miriam Sapiro, Marietje Schaake, Bente Aika Scheller, Randall Scheunemann, Helga Schmid, Christian Schmidt, Gary Schmitt, Stephen Schneider, Darius Jonas Semaska, Peter Semneby, Chrysostomos Sfatos, Jeanne Shaheen, Oleh Shamshur, Tamar Shapiro, Jamie Shea, Wendy Sherman, Lilia Shevtsova, Radoslaw Sikorski, Peter William Skinner, John Skrentny, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Andrew Small, Eugeniusz Smolar, Jaromir Sokolowski, Paul Stafford, Gerhard Stahl, Tommy Steiner, Nathan Steinwald, Angela Stent, Philip Stephens, Petra Stienen, Bruce Stokes, Tom Stoppard, Ryan Streeter, Rudolf Strohmeier, Neil Sumilas, Kati Suominen, Dragan Sutanovac, Pawel Swieboda, Stephen Szabo, Reka Szemerkenyi, Ara Tadevosyan, Boris Tadic, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Ellen Tauscher, Sylke Tempel, Patrick Thomas, Mischa Thompson, Helsinki Commission, Nathalie Tocci, Jan Tombinski, Ian Traynor, Marc Trenteseau, Ilter Turan, Michael Turner, Daniel Twining, Niki Tzavela, Sinan Ulgen, Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, Sue Urahn, Peteris Ustubs, Joao Vale De Almeida, Alfredo Valladão, Franciskus Van Daele, Jef Van Den Put, Dymphna Van Der Lans, Herman Van Rompuy, Steven Vanackere, Marc Vanheukelen, Rik Vanpeteghem, Jordi Vaquer I Fanes, Ivan Vejvoda, Juan Verde, Guy Verhofstadt, Alexander Vershbow, Pierre Vimont, Eckart Von Klaeden, Robert Von Rimscha, David Walker, Joshua Walker, William Wallace, Helen Wallace, Mark Warner, Tsuneo Watanabe, Yorizumi Watanabe, Ursula Weidenfeld, Stefani Weiss, Klaus Welle, Jeffrey Werner, Geir Westgaard, Robert Wexler, Lode Willems, Boguslaw Winid, Martin Winter, Jakub Wisniewski, Jung-Yeop Woo, Dirk Wouters, Boleslaw Wozniak, Rob Wrigley, Mark Wynne, Tadamichi Yamamoto, Alexandros Yannis, Valdis Zatlers, Song Zhe, Robert Zoellick
Perpetrators	German Marshall Fund
Website	https://www.gmfus.org/2011
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 2011 was held March 25-27, 2011, arranged by the CIA/NATO-close German Marshall Fund of the United States. It gathered almost 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

These discussions happened at the same time as NATO was bombing Libya and Islamist armed groups were used as proxies for regime change in Syria; NATO was expanding missile systems closer to Russia; and a regime change was attempted in Belarus. The agenda included:

• Have the Western policies failed North Africa and the Middle East?
• China Rising: Is Strategic Competition Inevitable?
• The Global Trading System at Risk?
• Russian Modernization and the West
• Demographic Shifts and Minority Political Representation
• Saving Western Institutions from Extinction
• The Fossil-Free Future of Energy?
• Pipelines, Politics, and Pipe Dreams
• Keeping the G20 en Vogue
• Japan - The Aftershocks
• Bridging the Trust Deficit with Pakistan
• The European Neighborhood Policy: Ok, Let’s Get Real Here
• Missile Defense in Search of a Home
• Politics in America: Divided Government and the 2012 Election
• Is the Eurozone Crisis Over?
• Belarus’ Nightmare Election and the Western Response
• How can the Arab Spring lead to Democracy?
• Libya: What Now?
• Turkey, “Zero Problems” and the EU
• Bringing the Balkans into Europe

 

Known Participants

83 of the 398 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
João Vale de Almeida	Diplomat with a heavy Brussels Forum habit
Anne Applebaum	Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core, didn’t think that Hunter Biden's laptop qualified as a major news story.
Timothy Garton Ash	UK historian, Ditchley Governor with other connections. Presented a paper to the 1989 Bilderberg. Subsequently attended two more, over a span of 30 years.
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
José Manuel Barroso	Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission
Egemen Bağış	Bilderberg Turkish politician. Former president of the Federation of Turkish American Associations.
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.
Hans Binnendijk	Dutch born academic and US deep state functionary, a member of Atlantic Council and RAND corporation, deeply involved with NATO.
Julian Borger	In July 2015 Julian Borger was diplomatic editor for The Guardian
Josep Borrell	Spanish Euro-politician in the forefront of a censorship drive. Attended his first Bilderberg in 2023
Franziska Brantner	German super-militarist Green politician.
Gordon Brown	UK deep state functionary. Prime Minister from 2007-2010. WHO ambassador for Global Health Financing from 2021
Reinhard Bütikofer	German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs
Charles Cook	CFR. Election forecast analyst who attended his first Bilderberg meeting in 2018.
Robert Cooper	UK diplomat with a string of interesting roles. "One of the top 100 "public intellectuals" in the world"...
Ghislain D'hoop	High ranking Belgian diplomat with connections to the Royal Household and UN drug commission
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
Paula Dobriansky	Spookily connected US politician
Karen Donfried	US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021
Mikuláš Dzurinda	Slovak politician with a heavy BF habit
Stewart Eldon	UK DSO interested in "counter-corruption" and "National Security". Former UK/Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council, Institute for Statecraft
Steven Erlanger	Deep state connected New York Times journalist. Ditchley Governor, Regular at the MSC and the Brussels Forum
Liam Fox	UK politician
Simon Fraser	Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House.
David Frost	British adviser and politician
Fu Ying	Double Bilderberger Chinese ambassador to the UK. MSC regular.
Philip Gordon	Spooky US diplomat, CFR, Bilderberg
Nik Gowing	UK Deep state connected TV journalist
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
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
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.
Richard Henry Jones	US Ambassador to Israel, Kuwait and Lebanon. Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.
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
Stefan Kornelius	German editor. Süddeutsche Zeitung
David Kramer	US academic with multiple deep state connections. Conduit for giving the Steele Dossier to Buzzfeed.
Ivan Krastev	George Soros protegé
Mıroslav Lajčák	Slovak diplomat, who attended all the Munich Security Conferences from 2013 to 2020
Pascal Lamy	Multi-Bilderberg former Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Stephen Larrabee	RAND political scientist, MSC
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
... further results

 

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

83 of the 398 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
João Vale de Almeida	Diplomat with a heavy Brussels Forum habit
Anne Applebaum	Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core, didn’t think that Hunter Biden's laptop qualified as a major news story.
Timothy Garton Ash	UK historian, Ditchley Governor with other connections. Presented a paper to the 1989 Bilderberg. Subsequently attended two more, over a span of 30 years.
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
José Manuel Barroso	Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission
Egemen Bağış	Bilderberg Turkish politician. Former president of the Federation of Turkish American Associations.
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.
Hans Binnendijk	Dutch born academic and US deep state functionary, a member of Atlantic Council and RAND corporation, deeply involved with NATO.
Julian Borger	In July 2015 Julian Borger was diplomatic editor for The Guardian
Josep Borrell	Spanish Euro-politician in the forefront of a censorship drive. Attended his first Bilderberg in 2023
Franziska Brantner	German super-militarist Green politician.
Gordon Brown	UK deep state functionary. Prime Minister from 2007-2010. WHO ambassador for Global Health Financing from 2021
Reinhard Bütikofer	German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs
Charles Cook	CFR. Election forecast analyst who attended his first Bilderberg meeting in 2018.
Robert Cooper	UK diplomat with a string of interesting roles. "One of the top 100 "public intellectuals" in the world"...
Ghislain D'hoop	High ranking Belgian diplomat with connections to the Royal Household and UN drug commission
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
Paula Dobriansky	Spookily connected US politician
Karen Donfried	US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021
Mikuláš Dzurinda	Slovak politician with a heavy BF habit
Stewart Eldon	UK DSO interested in "counter-corruption" and "National Security". Former UK/Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council, Institute for Statecraft
Steven Erlanger	Deep state connected New York Times journalist. Ditchley Governor, Regular at the MSC and the Brussels Forum
Liam Fox	UK politician
Simon Fraser	Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House.
David Frost	British adviser and politician
Fu Ying	Double Bilderberger Chinese ambassador to the UK. MSC regular.
Philip Gordon	Spooky US diplomat, CFR, Bilderberg
Nik Gowing	UK Deep state connected TV journalist
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
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
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.
Richard Henry Jones	US Ambassador to Israel, Kuwait and Lebanon. Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.
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
Stefan Kornelius	German editor. Süddeutsche Zeitung
David Kramer	US academic with multiple deep state connections. Conduit for giving the Steele Dossier to Buzzfeed.
Ivan Krastev	George Soros protegé
Mıroslav Lajčák	Slovak diplomat, who attended all the Munich Security Conferences from 2013 to 2020
Pascal Lamy	Multi-Bilderberg former Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Stephen Larrabee	RAND political scientist, MSC
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
... further results

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