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21/04/2005 - 22/04/2005 :
The Brussels Economic Forum 2005; Les entretiens économiques de Bruxelles; Das Brüsseler Wirtschaftsforum

Brussels, 21 -22 April 2005

  • Programme pdf - 236 KB [236 KB] pdf - 236 KB [236 KB] pdf - 236 KB [236 KB] (pdf file 230 kb)
  • Venue: The Charlemagne Building
    170, rue de la Loi, 1049 Brussels


Contributions - Copyrights rest with the authors.
Thursday, 21 April 2005

Joaquín Almunia, Member of the European Commission in charge of Economic and Monetary Affairs Opening address. Improving the EU’s growth potential through sound fiscal policies and economic reform pdf - 80 KB [80 KB]   (pdf file 80 kb)  Presentation pdf - 79 KB [79 KB] (pdf file 80 kb)

Session 1. Minutes pdf - 97 KB [97 KB] (pdf file 230 kb)
The Economic Outlook and the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines
Chair: Gideon Rachman, Journalist "The Economist", Brussels, Bureau Chief

Klaus Regling, Director General, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European CommissionThe economic situation in the spring of 2005: policies for sustained growth pdf - 99 KB [99 KB] (pdf file 80 kb) Presentation pdf - 111 KB [111 KB] (pdf file 110 kb)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Member of French Parliament and former Minister of Economy, Finance and IndustryEconomic Governance and the revision of the Stability Pact
Philipp M. Hildebrand, Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank The EU economic recovery: why is it so slow? pdf - 165 KB [165 KB] (pdf file 160 kb)
Mario Draghi, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, LondonExchange rates: where are the markets taking us?

Open discussion and conclusions of the Chair

Session 2. Minutes pdf - 68 KB [68 KB] (pdf file 230 kb)
Lisbon: Injecting new momentum
Chair: Wim Kok, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands


Introduction by the Chair
Günter Verheugen, Vice-President and Member of the European Commission in charge of Enterprise and IndustryLisbon: the Way Ahead
David Robinson, Deputy Director of Research, IMFHow much reform does Europe need? What matters in the labor market and how far can one go? pdf - 136 KB [136 KB] (pdf file 140 kb) Presentation pdf - 191 KB [191 KB] (pdf file 190 kb)
Prof. John Fitz Gerald, Economic and Social Research Institute, DublinProgress on the Lisbon Agenda pdf - 275 KB [275 KB] (pdf file 280 kb) Presentation. Lisbon Agenda: Lessons and Relevance pdf - 228 KB [228 KB] (pdf file 230 kb)
Jeremy Rifkin, President, Foundation on Economic Trends, WashingtonThe European Dream: Europe’s Unique Economic and Social Model. Part 1. The European Dreal pdf - 170 KB [170 KB] (pdf file 165 kb) Part 2. Proposals and Recommendations pdf - 226 KB [226 KB] (pdf file 230 kb)

Policy Panel
Lisbon: From Principles to Practice

Pervenche Berès, Chairwoman, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Parliament
Poul N. Rasmussen, former Danish Prime Minister, Member of the European ParliamentPresentation pdf - 358 KB [358 KB] (pdf file 360 kb)
Vicompte Etienne Davignon, Ministre d'Etat, Vice-President SUEZ-Tractebel and former Vice-President of the European Commission
Philippe De Buck, Secretary-General, UNICE
John Monks, Secretary-General, ETUC
Open debate and conclusions of the Chair

Friday, 22 April 2005

Session 3. Minutes pdf - 87 KB [87 KB] (pdf file 90 kb)
Labour and capital flows, and outsourcing - rising to the challenges
Chair: Karel Van Miert, Ministre d'Etat, former Vice-President of the European Commission
Introduction by the Chair
Part 1. Labour migration: the economic impact
Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University, New YorkMigration: what can Europe learn? mp3 - 20 MB [20 MB] (mps file 20 000kb)
Prof. Gudrun Biffl, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)Immigration: the potential impact on EU society pdf - 438 KB [438 KB] (pdf file 90 kb)
Prof. Gilles Saint-Paul, Director of the Labour Economics Programme, CEPR, LondonImmigration and public finances pdf - 127 KB [127 KB] (pdf file 440 kb)
Part 2. Outsourcing, offshoring, relocation: the economics behind the debate
Elie Cohen, Director of Research, CNRS, ParisDélocalisations, nouvelle division internationale du travail et croissance pdf - 180 KB [180 KB] (pdf file 180 kb)
Prof. Matija Rojec, University of Ljubljana Globalisation and the new Member States pdf - 366 KB [366 KB] (pdf file 370kb)
Prof. Tony Venables, London School of EconomicsOutsourcing: what do we know? pdf - 271 KB [271 KB] (pdf file 100 kb)

Open discussion and conclusions of the Chair
Session 4. Minutes pdf - 75 KB [75 KB] (pdf file 75 kb)
Europe’s neighbours: towards closer integration?
Chair: Benita Ferrero - Waldner, Member of the European Commission in charge of External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy
Introduction by the Chair
Panel discussion

Policy Panel
The economics of neighbourhood policy

Klaus Regling, Director General, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
Oleh Borisovich Rybachuk, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European IntegrationEU Neighbours: Towards Closer Integration? pdf - 102 KB [102 KB] (pdf file 100 kb)
Tamar Beruchashvili, Deputy State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Georgia
Abdeltif Loudyi, Secretary-General, Ministry of Finance and Privatisation, MoroccoLa Politique européenne de voisinage et l’objectif de la création d’un espace euro-méditerranéen homogène pdf - 197 KB [197 KB] (pdf file 200 kb) Presentation Politique européenne de voisinage: Vers une intégration plus profonde pdf - 268 KB [268 KB] (pdf file 200 kb)

The EU and its neighbours: looking into the crystal ball

Prof. Jim Rollo, Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex
Natural Trading Blocs, Deep Integration and the European Neighbourhood Policy pdf - 908 KB [908 KB] (pdf file 830 kb)
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Member of the European Parliament
José Manuel Barroso, President of the European CommissionGeneral conclusions on the 6th Brussels Economic Forum

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