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| 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 |
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Session 1. Minutes |
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| Klaus Regling, Director General, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission | The economic situation in the spring of 2005: policies for sustained growth |
| Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Member of French Parliament and former Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry | Economic 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? |
| Mario Draghi, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, London | Exchange rates: where are the markets taking us? |
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| Open discussion and conclusions of the Chair |
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Session 2. Minutes |
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| Introduction by the Chair |
| Günter Verheugen, Vice-President and Member of the European Commission in charge of Enterprise and Industry | Lisbon: the Way Ahead |
| David Robinson, Deputy Director of Research, IMF | How much reform does Europe need? What matters in the labor market and how far can one go? |
| Prof. John Fitz Gerald, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin | Progress on the Lisbon Agenda |
| Jeremy Rifkin, President, Foundation on Economic Trends, Washington | The European Dream: Europe’s Unique Economic and Social Model. Part 1. The European Dreal |
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Policy Panel |
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| Pervenche Berès, Chairwoman, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Parliament |
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| Poul N. Rasmussen, former Danish Prime Minister, Member of the European Parliament | Presentation |
| 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 | |
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Friday, 22 April 2005 |
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Session 3. Minutes Labour and capital flows, and outsourcing - rising to the challenges Chair: Karel Van Miert, Ministre d'Etat, former Vice-President of the European Commission |
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| Introduction by the Chair |
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| Part 1. Labour migration: the economic impact | |
| Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University, New York | Migration: what can Europe learn? |
| Prof. Gudrun Biffl, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) | Immigration: the potential impact on EU society |
| Prof. Gilles Saint-Paul, Director of the Labour Economics Programme, CEPR, London | Immigration and public finances |
| Part 2. Outsourcing, offshoring, relocation: the economics behind the debate |
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| Elie Cohen, Director of Research, CNRS, Paris | Délocalisations, nouvelle division internationale du travail et croissance |
| Prof. Matija Rojec, University of Ljubljana | Globalisation and the new Member States |
| Prof. Tony Venables, London School of Economics | Outsourcing: what do we know? |
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| Open discussion and conclusions of the Chair |
Session 4. Minutes Europe’s neighbours: towards closer integration? Chair: Benita Ferrero - Waldner, Member of the European Commission in charge of External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy |
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| Introduction by the Chair Panel discussion |
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Policy Panel |
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| Klaus Regling, Director General, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission | |
| Oleh Borisovich Rybachuk, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European Integration | EU Neighbours: Towards Closer Integration? |
| Tamar Beruchashvili, Deputy State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Georgia | |
| Abdeltif Loudyi, Secretary-General, Ministry of Finance and Privatisation, Morocco | La Politique européenne de voisinage et l’objectif de la création d’un espace euro-méditerranéen homogène |
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The EU and its neighbours: looking into the crystal ball |
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| Prof. Jim Rollo, Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex | Natural Trading Blocs, Deep Integration and the European Neighbourhood Policy |
| Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Member of the European Parliament | |
| José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission | General conclusions on the 6th Brussels Economic Forum |