Brussels Forum/2009

 Brussels Forum/2009(Brussels Forum/Meeting)

Date	20 March 2009 - 22 march 2009
Location	Brussels,  Belgium
Website	https://www.gmfus.org/2009
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.
Participants	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
Perpetrators	German Marshall Fund

The Brussels Forum 2009 was held March 20-22, 2009, 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

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.

• "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

108 of the 386 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Anne Applebaum	Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core, claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't a major news story.
José Manuel Barroso	Portuguese deep state actor, Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission, WEF GLT 1993
Robert Bennett	Mormon US Senator who attended Brussels Forums
Stephen Biegun	Spooky businessman diplomat member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force
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
William Drozdiak	Editor with a heavy Brussels Forum and MSC habit
Sorin Ducaru	Romanian diplomat who held various senior posts
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
Mark Esper	military-industrial complex lobbyist and defense minister
Ulrik Federspiel	Danish diplomat, Bilderberg Steering committee
Simon Fraser	Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House.
Roland Freudenstein	Spooky researcher and speaker in the German II cluster with a heavy Brussels Forum habit
Nik Gowing	UK Deep state connected TV journalist
Heather Grabbe	Academic BF regular, WEF GLT 2003 amongst other Deep State ties
Marc Grossman	Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs.
Ignasi Guardans	Spanish politician who attended at least 2 Brussels Fora
Karel De Gucht	Belgian EU-politician and 3 time Bilderberger. As European Commissioner prepared negotiations with the United States for the secretive supranational Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which would "provide an economic equivalent to Nato" and settle the rules of world trade.
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 who attended at least 4 Brussels Fora and at least 5 Munich Security Conferences
François Lafond	Academic with a heavy Halifax International Security Forum habit
Mıroslav Lajčák	Slovak diplomat, who attended all the Munich Security Conferences from 2013 to 2020
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff	A member of the noble Lambsdorff family. Transatlantic euro-politician. Reliable ally of George Soros.
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
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