Brussels Forum/2014

 Brussels Forum/2014(Brussels Forum/Meeting)

Date	21 March,2014 - 24 March,2014
Location	Brussels,  Belgium
Abbreviation	BF/2014
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
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, François de Kerchove, Antonio De Palmas, Geert De Roep, Nicola de Santis, Ute Deceuninck-John, Milica Delevic, Gordana Delić, 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 Koliada, 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 Masso, 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 Müller-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 Örgü, 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 Rinkēvičs, David Riveros García, George Robertson of Port Ellen, Milan Rocen, Julia Rodriguez Larreta, David Romley, Norbert Rottgen, Andres Rozental, Daniel Runde, Susan Russell, Nicolò 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 Svilanović, William Sweeney, Paweł Świeboda, Tomasz Szatkowski, Réka Szemerkényi, 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, João 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 Vejvoda, 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

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

160 of the 537 participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Badr Abdelatty	Egyptian career diplomat
Michael Abramowitz	VOA director
John Allen	A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General
João Vale de Almeida	Diplomat with a heavy Brussels Forum habit
Marouane Ameziane
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
Caroline Atkinson
Stefanie Babst	"Highly sought-after speaker and thought leader in the field of international security policy and NATO affairs"
Thomas Bagger	ECFR member, MSC regular
Rosa Balfour	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, German Marshall Fund
Michał Baranowski	GMF Warsaw Office
Philip Bednarczyk
Benedetta Berti
Stephen Biegun	Spooky businessman diplomat member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force
Carl Bildt	Swedish deep state actor, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Active in an impressive number of deep state related commissions & conferences.
Ralf Brauksiepe	German politician
Philip Breedlove	Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Sandra Breka
Elmar Brok	lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular
Alexis Brouhns	Diplomat who attended several Brussels Fora and WEF annual meetings
Neil Brown	An Australian politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Reinhard Bütikofer	German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs
Jean-Pierre Clamadieu	French businessman who attended WEF Annual meetings
Iain Conn	UK businessman, WEF GLT 2001, kicked a BF habit in 2018 and a WEF AGM habit in 2020
Al Cook
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
Gordana Delić	BF regular
Pavol Demeš	Director of the German Marshall Fund's Bratislava office 2000-1010
Sorin Ducaru	Romanian diplomat who held various senior posts
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.
Roland Freudenstein	Spooky researcher and speaker in the German II cluster with a heavy Brussels Forum habit
Michael Froman	Serial WEF meeting visitor with many other SDS connections
Anthony Gardner	U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Senior non-resident fellow of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund.
Kristalina Georgieva	Bilderberg World Bank
Misha Glenny	Heavy BF habit, other deep state connections
Nik Gowing	UK Deep state connected TV journalist
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Heather Grabbe	Academic BF regular, WEF GLT 2003 amongst other Deep State ties
Charles Grant	Ditchley governor with Heavy BF and MSC habits
Daniel Gros	Belgian academic
Marc Grossman	Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs.
Alexander Grushko	Russian diplomat with a heavy MSC habit
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