Bilderberg/1998
The 1998 Bilderberg Meeting was the 46th such meeting and had participants from Europe, the United States and Canada. It was chaired by Peter Carrington and was held at Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland. The 121 guests included 35 business executives, 25 politicians, 8 financiers, 12 editors/journalists and 9 academics. The next meeting was the 1999 Bilderberg.
Contents
- 1 Agenda
- 1.1 1. Current Events
- 1.2 2. What Will be the Consequences of EMU?
- 1.3 3. Is there Room for one Transatlantic Market Place?
- 1.4 4. Military Implications of the Growing Technological Disparity between the United States and Europe
- 1.5 5. To what Extent Will Enlargement Redefine NATO's Relationship with Russia?
- 1.6 6. Is Europe's Social Model Dead?
- 1.7 7. A Review of the Crisis in Kosovo and Albania: the Role of the UN
- 1.8 8. In the Light of the Asian Crisis should the World's Financial System be Reformed?
- 1.9 9. The Implications of the New India Nuclear Weapon Program
- 1.10 10. Turkey's Role in the Western Alliance
- 2 Press Release
- 3 Known Participants
- 4 Witnesses
- 5 References
Agenda
The 1998 Bilderberg Agenda has not been leaked, but the website at Bilderberg Meetings has posted an agenda.
1. Current Events
2. What Will be the Consequences of EMU?
3. Is there Room for one Transatlantic Market Place?
4. Military Implications of the Growing Technological Disparity between the United States and Europe
5. To what Extent Will Enlargement Redefine NATO's Relationship with Russia?
6. Is Europe's Social Model Dead?
7. A Review of the Crisis in Kosovo and Albania: the Role of the UN
8. In the Light of the Asian Crisis should the World's Financial System be Reformed?
9. The Implications of the New India Nuclear Weapon Program
10. Turkey's Role in the Western Alliance
Press Release
The 46th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Turnberry, Scotland, May 14-17, 1998 to discuss the Atlantic Relationship in a Time of Change. Among others the Conference will discuss NATO, Asian Crisis, EMU, Growing Military Disparity, Japan, Multilateral Organizations, Europe's social model, Turkey, EU/US Market Place.
Approximately 120 participants from North America and Europe will attend the discussions. The meeting is private in order to encourage frank and open discussion.
Bilderberg takes its name from the hotel in the Netherlands where the first meeting took place in May 1954. That meeting grew out of the concern on both sides of the Atlantic that the industrialized democracies in Europe and North America were not working together as closely as they should on matters of critical importance. It was felt that regular, off-the-record discussions would contribute to a better understanding of the complex forces and major trends affecting Western nations.
What is unique about Bilderberg as a forum is (1) the broad cross-section of leading citizens, in and out of government, that are assembled for nearly three days of purely informal discussion about topics of current concern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and the international economy, (2) the strong feeling among participants that in view of the differing attitudes and experiences of their nations, there is a continuous, clear need to develop an understanding in which these concerns can be accommodated, and (3) the privacy of the meetings, which have no purpose other than to allow participants to speak their minds openly and freely.
To ensure full discussion, individuals representing a wide range of political and economic points of view are invited. Two-thirds of the participants come from Europe and the remainder from the United States and Canada. Within this framework, on average about one-third are from the government sector and the remaining two-thirds from a variety of fields including finance, industry, labour, education and the media. Participants are solely invited for their knowledge, experience and standing and with reference to the topics on the agenda.
All participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not in an official capacity.
Participants have agreed not to give interviews to the press during the meeting. In contacts with the news media after the conference it is an established rule that no attribution should be made to individual participants of what was discussed during the meeting.
There will be no press conference. A list of participants is appended.
Known Participants
114 of the 121 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Gianni Agnelli | Italian industrialist, 37 Bilderbergs |
| Paul Allaire | Bilderberg Steering Committee member and board of the Council on Foreign Relations who headed Rank Xerox |
| Joaquín Almunia | Spanish politician, European Commissioner for 10 years, 6 Bilderbergs |
| Otto Wolff von Amerongen | Bilderberg Advisory Committee member, deep politician |
| Beatrix Armgard | Former Dutch Queen. Survived 2009 Queen's Day Attack. In 1962 became the first woman to attend a Bilderberg meeting. Kicked a very heavy Bilderberg habit in 2015. |
| Percy Barnevik | Bilderberg Steering committee member in the Wallenberg Sphere |
| Uğur Bayar | Turkish businessman and financier. |
| Franco Bernabè | Italian banker and manager, Steering Committee of the Bilderberg |
| Christoph Bertram | German journalist with a heavy Bilderberg habit |
| Ernst van der Beugel | Dutch deep politician, 34 Bilderbergs, on both the Advisory & Steering committees |
| Conrad Black | Fraudulent Bilderberg steering committee member |
| Emma Bonino | Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection |
| Leon Brittan | former European Commissioner |
| John Browne (Executive) | UK businessman and former CEO of BP. He proposed a merger of Shell and BP at the 2004 Bilderberg. |
| John Bruton | Club de Madrid, Triple Bilderberger Irish politician |
| Robin Buchanan | Triple Bilderberger US businessman |
| Hubert Burda | Multi-billionaire publisher. 7 Bilderbergs |
| Peter Carrington | UK Deep politician. Bilderberg chairman. President of the Pilgrims Society. Secretary General of NATO. Chairman of the UK Conservative Party. Busy guy. |
| Luigi Cavalchini | Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as Italian Permanent Representative to the European Union. |
| İsmail Cem | Turkish politician and Robert College alumnus. Attended 1 Bilderberg as mooted presidential candidate, a second as Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
| Raymond Chretien | Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as Canadian Ambassador to the US. |
| Anatoly Chubais | Double Bilderberger facilitator of the privatization of Russia that killed millions. Central actor in the introduction of the Sputnik V "vaccine". |
| Kenneth Clarke | Bilderberg Steering committee, The Other Club, UK politician. When former child actor Ben Fellows went public with accusations that Clarke had assaulted him, Fellows was prosecuted for "attempting to pervert the course of justice". |
| Bertrand Collomb | Connected French businessman. 13 Bilderbergs. |
| Miguel Horta e Costa | Portuguese banker |
| Kenneth Courtis | Businessman, financier and 3 times Bilderberg visitor. |
| Vasco Pereira Coutinho | Portuguese businessman who attended the 1998 Bilderberg |
| Andrew Crockett | IMF, BIS, Bank Of England, JP Morgan |
| George David | Greek Cypriot entrepreneur, Bilderberg Steering committee. |
| Étienne Davignon | Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president |
| Stéphane Dion | Canadian diplomat who attended the 1998 Bilderberg as Canada/President of the Privy Council |
| Tom Donilon | Spooky Bilderberger. Has advised the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, designing policy, managing conventions, preparing candidates for debates, and overseeing presidential transitions. His brothers are also deep state operatives. |
| Uffe Ellemann-Jensen | Started more offensive military/soft power posture as Danish Foreign Minister. 8 Bilderbergs, candidate for NATO General-Secretary. |
| Ursula Engelen-Kefer | Vice Chairman of the German Confederation of Trade Unions 1990-2006. Attended 1998 Bilderberg meeting |
| Meral Gezgin Eriş | Lobbyist for Turkish membership of the European Union. |
| Martin Feldstein | US economist, Trilateral Commission, heavy Bilderberg habit towards the end of his life. |
| Stanley Fischer | Israeli/US central banker and quad Bilderberger |
| Orit Gadiesh | One of the world's "100 most powerful women". Attended the 1997 and 1998 Bilderbergs. |
| Jean-Louis Gergorin | Attended 4 Bilderbergs from 1997 to 2003. Sentenced to 3 years in prison for slanderous denunciation, forgery, concealment of breach of trust and theft |
| John Goossens | Belgacom/CEO who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1990s. Died at 57 |
| Ronald Grierson | Spooky financier/businessman |
| Marc Grossman | Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs. |
| Bernard Guetta | French journalist and editor, and MEP. Supported the official narrative from a "leftist" angle during the Cold War, the Arab Spring, the deep state drive for European supranational integration; and the New Cold War. French-American Foundation/Young Leader. Bilderberg/1998. |
| Victor Halberstadt | A professor of economics, with a minimal Wikipedia page, who has attended all Bilderberg meetings since 1975. |
| David Hannay | UK diplomat, Ditchley Governor, attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1990s |
| Jim Hoagland | US journalist whose Deep state connections include the CFR, Hoover Institution, Institute for Strategic Dialogue and 4 visits to the Bilderberg |
| Cees van der Hoeven | Dutch businessman who attended Bilderberg/1998 and Bilderberg/2001 |
| James F. Hoge | Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as Foreign Affairs/Editor |
| Christopher Hogg | Double Bilderberg UK chairman of Reuters, later big pharma exec. |
| Richard Holbrooke | Bilderberg/Steering committee, deep state operative |
| ... further results | |
Witnesses
| Witness | Description |
|---|---|
| John Micklethwait | Editor of The Economist for 9 years then Bloomberg News |
| Adrian Wooldridge | UK journalist and columnist. Regular "observer" at the Bilderberg for The Economist. |
