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Home >  Events >  Relaunching the Transatlantic Partnership
Relaunching the Transatlantic Partnership
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Common Goals and Shared Values
Cosponsored by Aspen Institute Italia
Start:  Thursday, October 2, 2003  8:30 PM
End:  Saturday, October 4, 2003  3:00 PM
Location:  Aldrovandi Palace Hotel
Rome, Italy
Experts debate the reasons behind U.S. cultivatation of its European allies, while discussing the democratization of the Middle East and the transatlantic relationship.
Thursday, October 2
8:30 p.m.
Opening Dinner
Talk debate:
Like It or Not We Are Family
Charles Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom, AEI
Beppe Severgnini, columnist, Corriere della Sera, Milan
Friday, October 3
9:00 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks:
Carlo Scognamiglio, chairman, Aspen Institute Italia; professor of economics and industrial policy, LUISS–Guido Carli, Rome
Christopher DeMuth, president, AEI
9:15
First Panel:
What Divides and What Unites the U.S. and Europe
Chair:
Jim Nicholson, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Rome
Panel Speakers:
Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy, AEI
    Josef Joffe, editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg
    Richard Perle, resident fellow, AEI
    Enrico Letta, member of the Italian Parliament, Rome
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Second Panel: The Challenge of Democratization in the Middle East
  Chair: John Bruton, vice president, European People's Party, Dublin
  Introductory Remarks: Javier Solana Madariaga, high representative for CFSP, European Union Council of Ministers, Brussels
  Panel Speakers: Danielle Pletka, vice president, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, AEI
    Emma Bonino, member of the European Parliament, Brussels
    Michael A. Ledeen, resident scholar in the Freedom Chair, AEI
1:00 p.m. Lunch  
  Remarks: Mel Sembler, U.S. ambassador to Italy, Rome
3:00 Third Panel: International Legitimacy between the UN and Coalitions of the Willing
  Chair: Ana Palacio Vallelersundi, minister of foreign affairs, Madrid
  Panel Speakers: John O'Sullivan, editor, The National Interest
    Carl Bildt, former UN secretary-general's special envoy for the Balkans, United Nations, Geneva
    Karsten D. Voigt, coordinator for German American Relations, Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
    John R. Bolton, under secretary for arms control and international security, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
8:30 Dinner  
  Keynote Speech: Franco Frattini, minister of foreign affairs, Rome
  Comments: Ana Palacio Vallelersundi, minister of foreign affairs, Madrid
Saturday, October 4
9:00 a.m. Fourth Panel: Social Market versus Cowboy Capitalism? How We Can Learn from Each Other
  Chair: Lucio Stanca, minister for innovation and technology; vice chairman, Aspen Institute Italia, Rome
  Panel Speakers: Ralf Dahrendorf, member of the House of Lords, London
    Kevin A. Hassett, resident scholar, director of economic policy studies, AEI
    Daniel Gros, director, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels
    Bruce Kovner, chairman, Caxton Associates, New York
    Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, director for international financial relations, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Rome
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 Fifth Panel: NATO's Role in Facing Current Threats
  Chair: Alessandro Minuto Rizzo, deputy secretary-general, NATO, Brussels
  Panel Speakers: Gary Schmitt, executive director, Project for the New American Century, Washington, D.C.
    James F. Dobbins, director for international security and defense policy, RAND, Washington, D.C.
    Roberto Testore, managing director and director-general, Finmeccanica, Rome
    Simon Webb, policy director, Ministry of Defence, London
1:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks: Radek Sikorski, executive director, New Atlantic Initiative; Resident Fellow, AEI
    Carlo Scognamiglio, chairman, Aspen Institute Italia; professor of economics and industrial policy, LUISS–Guido Carli, Rome
1:30 Luncheon  

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