Brussels Forum/2017
The Brussels Forum 2017 was held March 23-25, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium, with over five hundred participants[1]. It was hosted by the deep state German Marshall Fund under the Chatham House Rule.
Overview
Participants include heads of state, senior officials from the European Union institutions and the member states, U.S. Cabinet officials, Congressional representatives, Parliamentarians, academics, and media.[2] Altough not secret, the Forum receives as good as no media coverage.
An annual high-level meeting, the Brussels Forum provides a venue for the transatlantic community to address pressing issues. By bringing together leading politicians, thinkers, journalists, and business representatives, Brussels Forum helps shape a new transatlantic agenda.
Agenda
The main theme was "End of Complacency – Era of Action?"[3]
Plenary Sessions:
- Addressing Popular Discontent at Home and Abroad
- US Leadership in a Changing Security Environment
- Beyond the Middle East Disorder
- Does the World Want to be Connected? (part 1. Economics ; part 2. Ideas, Identities, and Interconnectivity)
- The Reality of Economic Growth
- The Black Sea and Beyond: Strategies for a Troubled Periphery
- Reset or Retreat: The Cost of Rapprochement with Russia
- The Next Conflict? (part 1 North Korea; part 2. Eastern Europe and the Caucasus)
- Transatlantic Insecurity
Night-Owl Sessions:
- Is the Internet a Force for Good?
- A New Vision for Europe
- The Continuous Struggle: Living with Terrorism
- Rebooting Democracy
- The West in Trouble? Responses from Partners around the Globe
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels Forum/2014 | “The ultimate soft power instrument in the world is the Brussels Forum” | Carl Bildt | 2014 |
Known Participants
170 of the 519 participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Alberto Alemanno | "Public interest lawyer", "civic entrepreneur", WEF YGL 2015 |
| Leyla Aliyeva | MSC YL journalist |
| Michael Allen | |
| João Vale de Almeida | Diplomat with a heavy Brussels Forum habit |
| Ali Aslan | Spooky journalist, Georgetown University, many deep state ties |
| Caroline Atkinson | |
| Robert Atkinson | |
| Hassan Ba | WEF GLT 1999 |
| Rosa Balfour | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, German Marshall Fund |
| Michał Baranowski | GMF Warsaw Office |
| Kevin Baron | |
| Armando Barucco | Italian diplomat |
| Philip Bednarczyk | ASF YL 2015 who worked for the German Marshall Fund of the United States |
| Thorsten Benner | Several MSC visits |
| Benedetta Berti | MSC YL who acquired an MSC habit in 2020 |
| Luc Bertrand | Belgian businessman |
| Sophia Besch | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace fellow |
| Carl Bildt | Swedish deep state actor, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Active in an impressive number of deep state related commissions & conferences. |
| Elmar Brok | lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular |
| Alexis Brouhns | Diplomat who attended several Brussels Fora and WEF annual meetings |
| Reinhard Bütikofer | German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs |
| Kristīne Bērziņa | Academic with spooky ties |
| Douglas Carswell | A former Tory who was UKIP's sole representative in Parliament before becoming an Independent MP |
| Vladimir Chizhov | Picked up a heavy BF habit in 2007 |
| Derek Chollet | US official with Deep State connections |
| Steve Clemons | US writer with a heavy HISF habit |
| Julia De Clerck-Sachsse | Munich Security Conference Young Leader, multiple BF visits |
| Iain Conn | UK businessman, WEF GLT 2001, kicked a BF habit in 2018 and a WEF AGM habit in 2020 |
| Steve Covington | DSO mentioned in the Integrity Initiative leak. "supported SACEURs in 15 NATO Summits, over 150 Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, and Chief of Defense Meetings, and executed high-level meetings in every country in Europe and Eurasia" |
| Kelley Currie | US lawyer politician |
| Massimo D'Alema | Prime Minister of Italy 1998-2000 |
| Ivo Daalder | USDSO who co-authored Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis, a book published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution about 9/11 |
| Herman Daems | Belgian academic |
| Sudha David-Wilp | Deputy director at the German Marshall Fund s Berlin office |
| Milica Delević-Đilas | Serbian economist |
| Gordana Delić | BF regular |
| Pavol Demeš | Director of the German Marshall Fund's Bratislava office 2000-1010 |
| Muriel Domenach | French Permanent Representative to NATO 2019-2024 |
| Karen Donfried | US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021 |
| Mikołaj Dowgielewicz | Polish diplomat in the European Council on Foreign Relations |
| Kimberly Dozier | US journalist |
| Aleksandra Drecun | |
| William Drozdiak | Editor with a heavy Brussels Forum and MSC habit |
| Sorin Ducaru | Romanian diplomat who held various senior posts |
| Mikuláš Dzurinda | Slovak politician with a heavy BF habit |
| Fredrik Erixon | Swedish economist who attended 5 Brussels Fora from 2007 to 2017 |
| Steven Erlanger | Deep state connected New York Times journalist. Ditchley Governor, Regular at the MSC and the Brussels Forum |
| Nabil Fahmy | Egyptian |
| Joerg Forbrig | |
| Jeff Fortenberry | |
| ... further results | |
