WEF/Annual Meeting/1983
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 General Bernard W. Rogers | |
| Date | January 1983 |
| Location | Davos, Switzerland |
| Description | By 1983, the European Management Symposium had become, as Klaus Schwab put it in his opening address, "the foremost annual gathering of decision-makers of the world economy." |
| Planners | WEF |
| Participants | Klaus Schwab, Hilde Schwab, Malcolm Baldrige, Raymond Barre, Helmut Schmidt, Robert D. Muldoon, Poul Schlüter, Kalevi Sorsa, Cesar E. Virata, Kaare Willoch, Bernard W. Rogers, Arthur Scargill, Petra Kelly, Peter Sutherland |
The 1983 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, still known as the European Management Forum, was held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1983.
Own words
By 1983, the European Management Symposium had become, as Klaus Schwab put it in his opening address, the foremost annual gathering of decision-makers of the world economy."[1]
A special event at this symposium was the World Summit Session on Global Economic Issues, which was chaired by former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre. Klaus Schwab moderated the discussion, which included high-level public figures from developing countries.
Another highlight was the Prime Ministers’ session, which Helmut Schmidt, the former chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, moderated. The panellists – Robert D. Muldoon of New Zealand (also his country’s minister of finance), Poul Schlüter of Denmark, Kalevi Sorsa of Finland, Cesar E. Virata of the Philippines; and Kaare Willoch of Norway – analysed the key problems of leadership in the West and economic policy-making. On that occasion, the group launched the idea of a new trade round.
General Bernard W. Rogers, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, outlined Washington’s views on global security and arms control. “We understand peace as peace with freedom,” he declared. “We have only one option: successful disarmament negotiations with fair and verifiable control measures. We must remove obstacles to the negotiations. We need political unity and military strength. The only thing that impresses the Russians is a strong and resolute attitude.” His message was greeted with thunderous applause.
Petra Kelly, Leader of the German Greens, and Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers in Britain, had been invited to submit the views of the other side, "as is only right at a forum". Kelly "painted a grim picture of the current situation, with the problems of raw materials and energy shortages as well as pollution of the environment. The growth society and the belief in progress have come to an end, and this demands a fundamental change to a decentralized, ecologically based economic system".[2]
Known Participants
10 of the 14 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Raymond Barre | French PM, single Bilderberger |
| Petra Kelly | Founding member of the German Green Party, assassinated in 1992 |
| Bernard Rogers | US General, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, attended 6 Bilderbergs in the 1980s |
| Arthur Scargill | Leader of the UK miners' strike (1984–85) that was crushed by the British deep state. |
| Poul Schlüter | Prime Minister of Denmark 1982-1993 |
| Helmut Schmidt | German politician whose government was undermined by Le Cercle |
| Klaus Schwab | German economist, Bilderberg Steering committee, World Economic Forum Board of Trustees |
| Kalevi Sorsa | Finland’s longest serving prime minister |
| Peter Sutherland | A deep politician who held some key posts including Chairman of Goldman Sachs, WTO head, Attorney General of Ireland ... |
| Kåre Willoch | Norwegian PM who attended the Bilderberg in 1962, 1982 and 1987 |
