Wikispooks wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.33.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikispooks Wikispooks talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Property Property talk Form Form talk Concept Concept talk Document Document talk Wikipedia Wikipedia talk Test Test talk Widget Widget talk Campaign Campaign talk Module Module talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk Bilderberg/2000 0 31456 271940 250126 2023-11-18T18:24:55Z Robin 120 Text replacement - "|constitutes=meeting" to "|constitutes=Bilderberg/Meeting" wikitext text/x-wiki {{event |start=1 June 2000 |end=4 June 2000 |description=The 48th Bilderberg, 94 guests |perpetrators=Bilderberg/Steering committee |constitutes=Bilderberg/Meeting |image=Bilderberg_2000.jpg |locations=Genval, Brussels, Belgium |image_caption= |participants=Giovanni Agnelli, Umberto Agnelli, Esperenza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Paul Allaire, Alfredo Ambrosetti, Bodil Nyboe Andersen, Israel Asper, Graham Avery, Francisco Pinto Balsemao, Percy Barnevik, Dick Benschop, Franco Bernabè, Hans-Georg Betz, Carl Bildt, Conrad Black, John Bruton, Robin Buchanan, Kenneth Clarke, Nuri Colakoglu, Bertrand Collomb, Gerhard Cromme, George A. David, John M. Deutch, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Christopher Dodd, Thomas Donilon, Esther Dyson, Louise Fréchette, Paolo Fresco, David Frum, Teresa Patrício Gouveia, Donald E. Graham, Chuck Hagel, Victor Halberstadt, Christian Hambro, Erich Hampel, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Jan Huyghebaert, Daniel E. Janssen, Leif Johansson, James A. Johnson, Vernon Jordan, Muharrem Kayhan, Henry A. Kissinger, Hilmar Kopper, Henry Kravis, Marie-Josée Kravis, Pascal Lamy, André Lévy-Lang, Maurice Lippens, Paavo Lipponen, Jessica Mathews, William J. McDonough, Thierry de Montbrial, Mike Moore, Matthias Nass, Queen Beatrix, Jorma Ollila, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Leif Pagrotsky, George A. Papandreou, Lars-Eric Petersson, Wolfgang Petritsch, David de Pury, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Eivind Reiten, Bill Richardson, Gianni Riotta, David Rockefeller, Matías Rodriguez Inciarte, Eric Roll, Renato Ruggiero, Rudolf Scholten, Ph. de Schoutheete de Tervarent, Toger Seidenfaden, Javier Solana Madariaga, George Soros, James B. Steinberg, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Veton Surroi, Peter Sutherland, Daniel K. Tarullo, John L. Thornton, Giulio Tremonti, Jean-Claude Trichet, Daniel L. Vasella, Jeroen van der Veer, Lodewijk J. R. de Vink, Franz Vranitzky, Jacob Wallenberg, Martin Wolf, James D. Wolfensohn, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Paul Wolfowitz |witnesses=John Micklethwait, Adrian D. Wooldridge }} The '''2000 Bilderberg Meeting''' was the 48<sup>th</sup> such meeting and had participants from [[Europe]], the [[United States]] and [[Canada]]. It was held at Genval, [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]]. {{Bilderberg summary}} The next meeting was the [[2001 Bilderberg]]. ==Agenda== The 2000 Bilderberg Agenda has not been leaked, but the website at Bilderberg Meetings has posted an agenda. ===1. The New Economy and its Effects on Society=== ===2. Globalisation under Threat: the Way forward for the WTO=== ===3. US Elections: State of Play and Foreign Policy Consequences=== ===4. Cleaning up the Balkans=== ===5. EU Enlargement and its Implications for Geo-Political Balance=== ===6. The European Far Right - Is there a Threat?=== ===7. Current Affairs=== ==Exposure== [[image:BB2000 badge.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|An alleged ID badge from the 2000 Bilderberg.{{cn}}]] [[Jim Tucker]] revealed where the 2000 Bilderberg was meeting.<ref>http://www.bilderberg.org/2000pics.htm</ref> It was visited by some independent journalists, including [[Tony Gosling]]. ==Press Release== {{t|Bilderberg.org}} has a press release from the 2000 Bilderberg: {{QB|The 48th Bilderberg meeting was held in Brussels, Belgium, 1-3 June 2000. Among other subjects the Conference discussed US Elections, Globalisation, New Economy, the Balkans, EU Enlargement, the European Far Right. Approximately 100 participants from North America and Europe attended the discussions. The meeting was private in order to encourage frank and open discussion. Bilderberg takes its name from the hotel in Holland where the first meeting took place in May 1954. That pioneering meeting grew out of the concern expressed by leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that Western Europe and North America were not working together as closely as they should on common problems of critical importance. It was felt that regular, off-the-record discussions would help create a better understanding of the complex forces and major trends affecting Western nations in the difficult post-war period. The cold war has now ended. But in practically all respects there are more, not fewer, common problems - from trade to jobs, from monetary policy to investment, from ecological challenges to the task of promoting international security. It is hard to think of any major issue in either Europe or North America whose unilateral solution would not have repercussions for the other Thus the concept of a European-American forum has not been overtaken by time. The dialogue between these two regions is still - even increasingly - critical. What is unique about Bilderberg as a forum is the broad cross-section of leading citizens that are assembled for nearly three days [in this case roughly two days, ed.] of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and the international economy; the strong feeling among participants that in view of the differing attitudes and experiences of the Western nations, there remains a clear need to further develop an understanding in which these concerns can be accommodated; the privacy of the meetings, which has no purpose other han to allow participants to speak their minds openly and freely. In short Bilderberg is a small, flexible, informal and off-the-record international forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced. Bilderberg's only activity is its annual conference. At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued. Since 1954, forty seven conferences have been held. The names of the participants are made available to the press. Participants are chosen for their experience, their knowledge, and their standing; all participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity. There are usually about 120 participants of whom about two-thirds come from Europe and the balance from North America. About one-third are from government and politics, and two thirds from finance, industry, labor, education, communications. 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.}} {{SMWDocs}} ==References== {{reflist}} l1x6swocwie9a5mafl0w7snq6uz2gpf