Friends of Europe’s President’s Dinner, in partnership with Microsoft, GDF Suez, Vinyl 2010 and Weber Shandwick, was co-hosted by the Swedish Presidency and our President Viscount Etienne Davignon The dinner is Brussels’ landmark event, and is both intellectually stimulating as well as entertaining. It brought together some 200 high-level guests, including Friends of Europe Trustees, EU Commissioners, Members of the European Parliament, Directors General of the European Commission and other top officials from the EU Institutions and European governments, ministers, representatives from business, NGOs and civil society, as well as international press. With the new European Parliament in place and a new European Commission about to arrive, Friends of Europe used this occasion to debate the road ahead after the Irish referendum.