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On October 14 Friends of Europe will host its seventh annual State of Europe high-level brainstorming roundtable for Friends of Europe’s Trustees, business leaders, top policymakers and opinion-formers at the Palais d’Egmont. The three-session roundtable is organised by Friends of Europe with the support of Belgium’s EU Presidency and the Financial Times in partnership with Veolia Environnement, NYSE Euronext and Vodafone. The roundtable will welcome a select group of some 70 senior discussants, including ministers, senior policymakers, business leaders and international press. A maximum of 2 introductory discussants will give remarks at the start of each session before the senior discussants will engage in an interactive debate. The roundtable will also be attended by a few hundred observers.
Entitled “Tough Questions for the EU”, State of Europe will welcome Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Yves Leterme, Prime Minister of Belgium, Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Dominique Cerutti, President and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of NYSE Euronext, Michel Barnier, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, and Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive of Vodafone Group. It will be co-chaired by Friends of Europe’s President Viscount Etienne Davignon and our Trustees Elisabeth Guigou, Member of the Foreign Affairs and European Affairs Committees of the French Assemblée Nationale, and Mario Monti, Former European Commissioner for Competition and President of Università Bocconi.
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