| 8:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 9:00 | Opening Address: | Günter Rinsche, member of the Board of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung |
| | | James Sanford, deputy assistant United States trade representative for Europe, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative |
| 9:30 | Panel I: The Triumph of Free Trade versus Protectionism: Antidumping, Safeguards, New Protectionism for Steel, Chemicals, and Semiconductors |
| | Moderator: | Franz-Josef Reuter, director, Washington office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung |
| | Panelists: | Matthew Baldwin, deputy head of cabinet of EU trade commissioner Pascal Lamy |
| | | Claude Barfield, resident scholar, AEI |
| | | Paul Rübig MEP, member, Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research, and Energy of the European Parliament; president of SME-Union |
| 10:30 | Panel II: Allies or Rivals? The NATO Defense Concept versus U.S. Export Controls |
| | Moderator: | Radek Sikorski, executive director, New Atlantic Initiative; Resident Fellow, AEI |
| | Panelists: | Thomas Enders, director, Defence and Security Systems, EADS--European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company |
| | | Scott A. Harris, president, Continental Europe, Lockheed Martin Global Inc. |
| | | Pascal Meunier, director, European Programmes, Thales International |
| | | General Joseph W. Ralston, vice chairman of the Cohen Group; former SACEUR, NATO |
| 11:45 | Panel III: European Tax Competition--An Idea Whose Time Has Come? |
| | Moderator: | Werner Mussler, correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |
| | Panelists: | Kevin A. Hassett, resident scholar and director of economic policy studies, AEI |
| | | Michael Jäger, secretary-general, Taxpayers Association of Europe |
| | | Robert Verrue, director-general, Taxation & Customs Union, European Commission |
| | | Jacek Rostowski, professor, central European University |
| | | Robert Verrue, European Commission, Director General, Taxation and Customs Union |
| 1:00 p.m. | Luncheon | |
| | Speaker: | Otmar Issing, member, executive board of the European Central Bank
"Euro versus U.S. Dollar" |
| | Introduction: | Peter R. Weilemann, director, European Office, Konrad-
Adenauer-Stiftung |
| 2:30 | Panel IV: One Foot in the Grave? The Economic Implications of Demographic, Migration, and Welfare Policies in Europe and in the United States |
| | Moderator: | William Drozdiak, director, Brussels Office, German Marshall Fund of the United States |
| | Panelists: | Thomas Jansen, head of cabinet of the president of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union |
| | | Wilfried Prewo, chief executive of the Hanover Chamber of Industry and Commerce |
| | | Robert J. Samuelson, columnist, Newsweek and the Washington Post |
| | | Graham R. Watson MEP, member, Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament |
| 3:30 | Coffee break | |
| 3:45 | Panel V: Agricultural Protectionism: Protecting Farmers or Feeding the Poor? |
| | Moderator: | Tim Evans, president, Centre for the New Europe |
| | Panelists: | Corrado Pirzio-Biroli, head of cabinet of EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler |
| | | Noël Devisch, president of Boerenbond Belgium |
| | | James K. Glassman, resident fellow, AEI |
| | | Adam Lerrick, director of the Gailliot Center for Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4:30 | Conclusions and End of Conference |
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