Brussels Forum/2014

 Brussels Forum/2014(conference)

Date	21 March,2014 - 24 March,2014
Location	Brussels,  Belgium
Participants	Badr Abdelatty, Sabah Abid, Michael Abramowitz, Dirk Achten, Urban Ahlin, Samina Ahmed, Masahiro Akiyama, Obed Akwa, Abdulaziz Al Maliki, Assia Alaoui, Abdullah Al-Attiyah, Khalid Al-Attiyah, Andoni Aldekoa, John Allen, Ali Bin Jasim Al-Thani, Marouane Ameziane, Jeffrey Anderson, Fernando Andresen Guimaraes, Yusuke Arai, Neyla Arnas, Matthew Asada, Takaaki Asano, Catherine Ashton, Caroline Atkinson, Audun Halvorsen, Andrea Azevedo, Stefanie Babst, Sinne Backs Conan, Thomas Bagger, Rosa Balfour, Michal Baranowski, Toms Baumanis, Ummu Bava, Melissa Bean, Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco, Philip Bednarczyk, Liam Benham, Benedetta Berti, Stephen Biegun, Filiz Bikmen, Carl Bildt, Federiga Bindi, Michael Birnbaum, Paul Bledsoe, Jovana Bogojevic, Rachel Bonfante, Elizabeth Boswell Rega, Erik Brattberg, Ralf Brauksiepe, Marc Braun, Philip Breedlove, Sandra Breka, Kern Briggs, Elmar Brok, Alexis Brouhns, Neil Brown, Jason Bruder, Matthew Bryza, Charles Buchanan, Alexandru Cosmin Buteica, Reinhard Bütikofer, Alessia Calabrese, Claudia Caldeirinha, Christopher Caldwell, Amy Camilleri Zahra, Edoardo Camilli, Diego Cánepa, Raquel Castaneda, Chikondi Chabvuta, Christopher Chakwana, Samia Charadi, Howard Chase, Patrick Chevallereau, Puneet Chhatwal, Vladimir Chizhov, Kang Choi, Rebecca Christie, Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, Jim Clifton, Bruce Clingan, Roger Coelho, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Jeffrey Collins, Maia Comeau, Iain Conn, Al Cook, Pedro Cortés, Sophia Costa, Stephen Covington, Gregory Craig, Ana Crespo Parrondo, Adrian Croft, Daniela Cuciureanu, Nelson Cunningham, Mark Cunningham, Vanda Czifra, Pedro da Motta Veiga, François d'Alançon, Marcel Daniëls, Mihai Danila, Marta Dassù, Jonathan Day, Franck de Coninck, Pieter De Crem, Karel De Gucht, Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Francois de Kerchove, Antonio De Palmas, Geert De Roep, Nicola de Santis, Ute Deceuninck-John, Milica Delevic, Gordana Delic, Pavol Demes, Hendrik Descheemaeker, Andrii Deshchytsia, Ghislain d'Hoop, Milo Djukanovic, Richard Doherty, Mia Doornaert, Xenia Dormandy, Nina dos Santos, Olivera Drazic, Sorin Ducaru, Gwendolyn Dulla, Lígia Dutra Silva, Joe Echevarria, William Echikson, Julie Egan, Olof Ehrenkrona, Christoph Eichhorn, Karim El Aynaoui, Rozlyn Engel, Paige Ennis, Peter Ericson, Steven Erlanger, Ayhan Etem, Rui Faria da Cunha, Daniel Fata, Dean Fealk, Lee Feinstein, Alex Figueiredo, Vasyl Filipchuk, Mark Fischer, Victoria Flamant, Anne Flanagan, Sophie Flores, Joerg Forbrig, Liam Fox, Simon Fraser, Roland Freudenstein, Michael Froman, Laurie Fulton, Ahmed Gaaloul, Cristina Gallach, Ulrich Gamerdinger, Vesko Garcevic, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, Geraldine Gardner, Anthony Gardner, Piero Gastaldo, Alexander Gaus, Kristalina Georgieva, Robert Gerritsen, Rached Ghannouchi, Geert Gladdines, Misha Glenny, Diba Nigar Goksel, Nik Gowing, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Heather Grabbe, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Charles Grant, Megan Greene, Jeremy Grey, Gustav Gressel, Daniel Gros, Marc Grossman, Alexander Grushko, Kwanele Gumbi, Maria Elena Gutierrez, Adiam Hagos Hailemichealm, Chaibong Hahm, Vivien Haig, Hakim Hajoui, Heinz Haller, Bernd Halling, Ingrid Hamm, Marjut Hannonen, Hari Hariharan, John Harris, Allison Hart, Sylvia Hartleif, Samia Hathroubi, Emmanuel Haton, Norbert Hegedüs, Roland Henins, Wolfgang Herb, Patrick Hermann, Antje Herrberg, Andrew Higgins, David Hobbs, Katharina Hock, Nicholas Hodac, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Chris Hoornaert, Corinna Hörst, Adam Howard, Wade Hoxtell, Jonathan Hoyle, Rosalind Hudnell, Tomi Huhtanen, Rod Hunter, Rudolf Huygelen, Paul Huynen, Anna Ibrisagic, David Ignatius, Toomas Ilves, Akiko Imai, Karin Impens, Alina Inayeh, Vladislav Inozemtsev, Wolfgang Ischinger, Masafumi Ishii, Len Ishmael, Shada Islam, Motoshige Itoh, Vasile Iuga, Debbi Iwig, Bruce Jackson, Mark Jacobson, Dhruva Jaishankar, Momodou Jallow, Jackson Janes, Kestutis Jankauskas, Diana Janse, Anna Jardfelt, Lili Jassemi, Andis Jekabsons, Tim Judah, Kai Kaarelson, Ufuk Kâhya, Bahadir Kaleagasi, Natalia Kaliada, Nebojsa Kaludjerovic, Steffen Kampeter, Assita Kanko, Constance Kann, James Kanter, Janis Karklins, Anna Kárníková, Garry Keller, Peter Kellner, Craig Kennedy, Alexandre Kessler, Adnan Kifayat, Seiji Kihara, Keiro Kitagami, Hilary Klassen, Thorsten Klassen, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Rebecca Klett, Vitalii Klychko, Michael Köhler, Arba Kokalari, Daniel Korski, Nada Kovalčíková, R. Andreas Kraemer, Irina Krasovskaya, Ivan Krastev, Anton La Guardia, Johannes Laitenberger, David Landsman, Karel Lannoo, Guggi Laryea, Anne Laski, Ivars Lasis, Elena Lazarou, Jaehyon Lee, Seunghyuk Lee, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Christian Leffler, Marc Leland, Mark Leonard, Pamela Lesser, Ian Lesser, Sonja Licht, Nicola Lightner, Kadri Liik, Gitte Lillelund Bech, Oystein Lind, Tod Lindberg, Linas Linkevicius, Elias Links, Caio Lobo, Maleeha Lodhi, Christopher J. Lombardi, Dirk Loncke, Bernhard Lorentz, Simon Lunn, Celine Lussato, Orysia Lutsevych, Luc Luwel, Iivi Maaso, Vera Machado, Heike MacKerron, Patrik Maldre, Jaime Malet, Alia Mansour, Jan Matthysen, Martin McDowell, William McIlhenny, Kerry McNamara, Samuel Menassa, Robert Menendez, Dan Meridor, Giles Merritt, Ann Mettler, Lars Miethke, Edita Miftari, Gian Giacomo Migone, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, Tanja Miscevic, Hassan Mneimneh, Carlos Moedas, Federica Mogherini, Elisa Molino, Simone Mori, Gerard Moutet, L. Daniel Mullaney, Dietmar Muller-Elmau, Thomas Nagy, Evita Neefs, Elena Nemirovskaya, David Newman, Brian Newman, Amanda Ngwenya, Robin Niblett, Orestis Nikou, Charlotte Norlund-Matthiessen, Laurence Norman, John Normand, Karolina Nowak, Daniel O'Brien, Pearse O'Donohue, Jessica Olausson, Fadime Orgu, Paul Ortega, Brian O'Shea, David O'Sullivan, Marc Otte, Elsy Oueiss, Orkan Özdemir, Soli Özel, Zaneta Ozolina, Marco Palillo, Areva Paronjana, Carlos Pascual, Mildred Patterson, Safak Pavey, Christophe Payot, Bo Pedersen, Jesper Pedersen, Vivien Pertusot, Alex Petriashvili, Anja Petrovič, Marcel Pieper, Jorge Pikunic, Mariya Polner, Jerzy Pomianowski, Valentina Pop, Wolfgang Pordzik, Wilfried Porth, Fabrice Pothier, Jeffrey Potts, Richard Powers, Wojciech Przybylski, Hugh Pullen, Michael Punke, Dragana Radulovic, Brian Rampp, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Mike Reichert, Janusz Reiter, Oliver Rentschler, Didier Reynders, Alice Richard, John Richardson, David Ricks, Timothy Ridout, Michael Riegelnegg, Maris Riekstins, Rob Riemen, Edgars Rinkevics, David Riveros García, George Robertson of Port Ellen, Milan Rocen, Julia Rodriguez Larreta, David Romley, Norbert Rottgen, Andres Rozental, Daniel Runde, Susan Russell, Nicolo Russo Perez, Paolo de Sa, Madeleine Sackler, Salome Samadashvili, Håvard Sandvik, Andrei Sannikov, Christian Saucedo, Conor Savoy, Marietje Schaake, Bente Aika Scheller, Randall Scheunemann, Karl-Heinz Schlaiss, Helga Schmid, Gary Schmitt, Teri Schultz, Daniela Schwarzer, Kyle Scott, Salma Semmam, Eka Sepashvili, Gabriel Sepulveda, Andrés Serbin, Claudine Serre, Brenda Shaffer, Oleh Shamshur, Omaid Sharifi, Adam Sharon, Jamie Shea, Hanna Shelest, Wendy Sherman, Kojiro Shiojiri, Dijana Simijonovic, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Louisa Slavkova, Amanda Sloat, Andrew Small, Catherine Cornelius Smith, Julianne Smith, Magdalena Smorczewska, Lynette Snyder, Duncan Souster, Peter Sparding, Markus Sperl, Peter Spiegel, Medi Ssengooba, Paul Stafford, James Steinberg, Constanze Stelzenmuller, Angela Stent, Philip Stephens, Branimir Stojanovic, Bruce Stokes, Mark Storella, Dominique Struye de Swielande, Roger Svensson, Goran Svilanovic, William Sweeney, Pawel Swieboda, Tomasz Szatkowski, Réka Szemerkenyi, Boris Tadic, David Talbot, Milan Tankosič, Andrei Tarnea, Jonathan Taylor, Vessela Tcherneva, Alastair Teare, Sylke Tempel, Mostafa Terrab, Elsbeth Tiedemann, Eka Tkeshelashvili, Luciana Tomozei, Ian Traynor, Ana Trisic-Babic, Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, Ilter Turan, Michael Turner, Daniel Twining, Niki Tzavela, Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, David Usupashvili, Neringa Vaisbrode, Justin Vaïsse, Joao Vale de Almeida, Franciskus van Daele, Jef Van den Put, Marc Van der Ham, Luuk Van Middelaar, Johan Van Regemorter, Herman Van Rompuy, Rik Vanpeteghem, Jean-Luc Vanraes, Robert Vass, Ivan Vejvod, Olivera Velasevic, Johan Verbeke, Chris Verdonck, Alexander Vershbow, Dragana Vesovic, Maria Sofia Villanueva, Pierre Vimont, Marcus Vinicius de Freitas, Peter Vis, Kurt Volker, Eckart von Klaeden, Christoph Von Marschall, Alexandr Vondra, Tamara Vonta, Andres Vosman, Zoran Vujic, Andrijana Vukotic, Christian Wagner, Sarah Wagner, Eustace Wallace, Celeste Wallander, David Walzer, Bruno Waterfield, Jeffrey Werner, Robin West, Robert Wexler, Ted Whiteside, Steve Williams, Damon Wilson, Jason Wiseman, Jakub Wisniewski, Guntram Wolff, Dirk Wouters, Temuri Yakobashvili, Kamuran Yazganoglu, Ben Yielding, Richard Youngs, Mosharraf Zaidi, Robert Zoellick, Joanna Zoltowska
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 theme in 2014 was A World in Transition

The 2014 Brussels Forum, organized by the deep state The German Marshall Fund of the United States took place from 21th March to the 24nd March 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.

“The ultimate soft power instrument in the world is the Brussels Forum”
Carl Bildt (2014) 

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. By bringing them together the Brussels Forum helps shape the transatlantic agenda.

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. While not being secret, and even having some sessions published on Youtube, the Forum recievies virtually no media coverage.

Agenda

The sessions for 2014 Brussels Forum include:

• Europe in Transition
• NATO in Transition
• Is Europe Losing its East?
• Will the World’s Emerging Economies ever Emerge? 
• Beijing’s March West- Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China’s Rise 
• Can Europe Grow again?
• The Fate of Syria Three Years On
• Getting the Workforce Working
• Global Energy Transitions and Economic Competitiveness 
• Uprisings, Realignment, and Confusion in the Middle East and North Africa
• The Future of Trade
• Transatlantic Trust- is it Damaged? Can it be Restored? 
• The Return of History: Is Europe’s Past Asia’s Future? 
• Europe’s Stake in U.S. Strategy 
• Soft Power Strikes Out, Hard Power Strikes Back
• Global Nuclear Security: Realities and Responsibilities

 

Known Participants

71 of the 537 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Badr Abdelatty
John Allen	A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General
João Vale de Almeida	Diplomat with a heavy Brussels Forum habit
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
Carl Bildt	Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions.
Philip Breedlove	Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Elmar Brok	lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular
Neil Brown	An Australian politician who attended the 1972 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
Mark Cunningham	US intelligence worker specializing in creating and promoting NGOs for regime changes.
Nelson Cunningham	Well-connected Kissinger associate
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...
Milica Delević-Đilas	Serbian economist
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.
Michael Froman	Serial WEF meeting visitor with many other SDS connections
Kristalina Georgieva	Bilderberg World Bank
Nik Gowing	UK Deep state connected TV journalist
Marc Grossman	Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs.
David Hobbs	Expert in oil industry structure working for Atlantic Council.
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.
Tim Judah	British writer, reporter and political analyst for The Economist
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
Daniel Korski	British spook now dabbling in transforming the health sector
Ivan Krastev	George Soros protegé
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
Christoph von Marschall	Tranatlantic German journalist
Robert Menendez	Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, multiple Munich Security Conferences
Dan Meridor	Le Cercle
Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo	Former acting Secretary General of NATO.
Federica Mogherini	Italian politician, WEF
Dietmar Müller-Elmau	German with a heavy Brussels Forum habit, also appears at the Munich Security Conference, ran the hotel that hosted the 2015 G7 summit
Elena Nemirovskaya	Russian opposition Bilderberger who founded the Moscow School of Political Studies, financed by Western governments.
Robin Niblett	Chatham House Director/Chief executive from 2007-2022...
Anders Fogh Rasmussen	Bilderberger, ex Danish PM, ex-Secretary General of NATO.
Didier Reynders	Belgian FM/European Commissioner for Justice accused of corruption
Edgars Rinkēvičs	Lithuanian President with a heavy Brussels Forum and MSC habit
George Robertson	Bilderberger, ex Secretary General of NATO with unknown deep political connections.
Marietje Schaake	Dutch spooky euro-politician. Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	Bilderberger, ex Secretary General of NATO. He held an "anti-terrorist exercise" in Madrid 3 days before the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
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