Panellists - European Ideas Network

The security of Europe against terror
Chairman: Jaime Mayor Oreja MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group in the EP,
Responsible for Political Strategy and the European Ideas Network
Guest speakers: Alvaro Uribe, Former President of Colombia (CO)
Zsolt Németh, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (HU)
Panellists: Ignacio Ibanez, Program Manager Inter-American Committee against Terrorism; Organization of American States
Walid Phares, Co Secretary General, Transatlantic Legislative Group on counter Terrorism (TAG)
Jean-Louis Bruguière, author of the SWIFT assessment report.
Erich Hochleitner, Chairman of the Board of the Austrian Institute for European Security Policy,
Chairman of the European security Network
Simon Busuttil MEP, EPP Group Coordinator in the EP Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Rapporteurs: Anthony Glees, Professor of Politics, Buckingham University, EIN Working Group 7
Eduardo Gutierrez Saenz de Buruaga, former Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS)
European Governance: New Political Commitments after Lisbon Treaty
and Strategy 2020
Chairman: Íñigo Méndez de Vigo MEP, Member of the EPP Group Bureau, Member of EP Committee on Economic and Monetary
Affairs, Chairman of the EIN 'European Governance: Implementing the Lisbon Treaty' Working Group
Guest speaker: Enikö Györi, Secretary of State responsible for EU matters, former Member of the EPP Group
Panellists: Paul Hofheinz, President, The Lisbon Council
Jakob von Weizsäcker, Economics Ministry of Thuringia and Bruegel
Allan Janik, Innsbrück University
Philippe Herzog, Chairman, Confrontation Europe
Diogo Feio MEP, Member of the EP Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Othmar Karas MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group in the EP, Member of the EP Special Committee on the Financial,
Economic and Social Crisis
Rapporteur: Fréderic Allemand, Professor of Science Po, EIN Working Group 6
Round Table - Europe 2020 from a Centre-Right Perspective:
Digital Competitiveness Up-date
Chairman: Malcolm Harbour MEP, Chairman of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee
Guest speaker: Zsolt Nyitrai, Minister of State (HU)
Gábor Mátrai, Vice-President of the National Media and Infocommunicatio Authority (HU)
Panellists: Simon Hampton, Director, European Public Policy, Google
Jan Hein Bakkers, Research Manager, IDC's European Telecoms
Mr Detlef Eckert, Director Lisbon Strategy and Policies for the Information Society,
Directorate General Information Society and Media, European Commission
Rapporteur: Andreas Tegge, Vice-President EU Government Relations
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