XXIth Meeting of European Group
The Hague, October 24-26, 1997

Conference Chairman: Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Host Country Chairman: Cees Maas

Friday 24 October

19h00-22h00
Opening dinner hosted by the Dutch Trilateral Group
- with Jacques Santer, President of the European Commission

Saturday 25 October

SESSION ON THE NETHERLANDS

09h00-10h30
THE DUTCH ECONOMIC “MODEL” IN AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
chaired by Cees Maas
Nout Wellink, Governor of the Central Bank of the Netherlands
Cees van Lede, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Akzo Nobel, Arnheim; former President, Federation of Netherlands Industry
Lodewijk de Waal, President, Federation of the Netherlands Trade Unions (FNV)

10h45-11h45
COMBATTING DRUGS AND BUILDING A COMMON EU RESPONSE
chaired by Willem Scherpenhuijsen Rom
Schelto Patijn, Mayor of Amsterdam
Cyrille Fijnaut, Professor of Criminology; Official Investigator on organised crime for the Parliaments of Belgium and The Netherlands
Jürgen Storbeck, Director, EUROPOL, The Hague

12h00-13h30
Luncheon with guest speaker
Frederik J. Duparc, Director, Mauritshuis, The Hague

SESSION ON EUROPE

14h00-14h45
THE EUROPEAN UNION'S ENLARGEMENT PROCESS:
THE VIEW FROM AN ACCEEDING COUNTRY
Janez Drnovsek, Prime Minister of Slovenia

14h45-16h30
STRENGTHENING EUROPE’S COMPETITIVE EDGE IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE
Willem F. Duisenberg, President, European Monetary Institute
Peter Sutherland, Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International; Chairman, British Petroleum Company, London; former Member EC Commission
Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pirelli; Vice President, Confindustria

17h30-18h30
Audience with H.M. Queen Beatrix of the Kingdom of The Netherlands

19h15-22h00
Dinner hosted by the Dutch Government
Joris Voorhoeve, Minister of Defence

Sunday 26 October

SESSION ON THE MIDDLE EAST
chaired by Otto Graf Lambsdorff

8h45-12h45
STATE AND PROSPECT OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE PROCESS
Panel discussion opened with the report presented by Arrigo Levi, Senior Columnist, Rome
Nabeel Sha’ath, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Palestinian National Authority
Uzi Arad, Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel
Miguel Angel Moratinos, EU Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process; former Ambassador of Spain to Israel
Judith Kipper, Founding Director, Middle East Forum, Council on Foreign Relations; Codirector, Middle East Studies Programme, CSIS; Consultant to ABC News and RAND