| Trade War or Transatlantic Market Place? |
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| European-American Economic Roundtable in Brussels |
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Thursday, April 29, 2004
9:00 AM
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Thursday, April 29, 2004
4:30 PM
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| Location: |
Cercle Royal Gaulois
Rue de la Loi, 5, 1000 Brussels |
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Experts examine transatlantic trade, welfare, tax competition, and economic issues in the United States and Europe. |
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| 8:30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 9:00 |
Opening Address: |
Günter Rinsche, member of the Board of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung |
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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 |
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Moderator: |
Franz-Josef Reuter, director, Washington office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung |
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Panelists: |
Matthew Baldwin, deputy head of cabinet of EU trade commissioner Pascal Lamy |
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Claude Barfield, resident scholar, AEI |
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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 |
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Moderator: |
Radek Sikorski, executive director, New Atlantic Initiative; Resident Fellow, AEI |
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Panelists: |
Thomas Enders, director, Defence and Security Systems, EADS--European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company |
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Scott A. Harris, president, Continental Europe, Lockheed Martin Global Inc. |
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Pascal Meunier, director, European Programmes, Thales International |
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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? |
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Moderator: |
Werner Mussler, correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |
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Panelists: |
Kevin A. Hassett, resident scholar and director of economic policy studies, AEI |
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Michael Jäger, secretary-general, Taxpayers Association of Europe |
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Robert Verrue, director-general, Taxation & Customs Union, European Commission |
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Jacek Rostowski, professor, central European University |
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Robert Verrue, European Commission, Director General, Taxation and Customs Union |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Luncheon |
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Speaker: |
Otmar Issing, member, executive board of the European Central Bank
"Euro versus U.S. Dollar" |
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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 |
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Moderator: |
William Drozdiak, director, Brussels Office, German Marshall Fund of the United States |
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Panelists: |
Thomas Jansen, head of cabinet of the president of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union |
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Wilfried Prewo, chief executive of the Hanover Chamber of Industry and Commerce |
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Robert J. Samuelson, columnist, Newsweek and the Washington Post |
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Graham R. Watson MEP, member, Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament |
| 3:30 |
Coffee break |
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| 3:45 |
Panel V: Agricultural Protectionism: Protecting Farmers or Feeding the Poor? |
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Moderator: |
Tim Evans, president, Centre for the New Europe |
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Panelists: |
Corrado Pirzio-Biroli, head of cabinet of EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler |
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Noël Devisch, president of Boerenbond Belgium |
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James K. Glassman, resident fellow, AEI |
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Adam Lerrick, director of the Gailliot Center for Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4:30 |
Conclusions and End of Conference | |
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More Information
Ida Garibaldi
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
USA
Phone: 202-862-7196
Fax: 202-862-7163
E-mail: iGaribaldi@aei.org
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Media Inquiries
Veronique Rodman
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-4870
E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
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