15h00
Optional Program at Ericsson:
BUSINESS & THE REVOLUTION OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

20H00-22H30
Official dinner hosted by the Swedish Government
- Lena Hjelm-Wallén, Deputy Prime Minister

Saturday 7 November

08h45-12h00

SESSION I: SWEDEN
chaired by Björn Svedberg

FINANCIAL CRISIS -- THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE
Urban Bäckström, Governor, Bank of Sweden
SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF THE SWEDISH MODEL
Assar Lindbeck, Professor of Economics, Stockholm University
SWEDEN: A CASE OF INSTITUTIONAL INERTIA
Olof Petersson, Director, Swedish Centre for Business & Policy Studies
WHERE IS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY HEADING IN SWEDEN AND IN EUROPE?
Hans Bergström, Editor-in-Chief, Dagens Nyheter

12h00-13h30
Luncheon with guest speaker
Göran Lindahl, President & Chief Executive Officer, ABB Asea Brown Boveri

14h00-17h00

SESSION II: EUROPE: ECONOMIC & MONETARY UNION (EMU)
chaired by Otto Graf Lambsdorff

THE STATE & PROSPECTS OF THE EURO
Otmar Issing, Member of the Executive Board & Chief Economist, European Central Bank
ECONOMIC REFORM AND TAX COORDINATION FOR A SUCCESSFUL EMU
Mario Monti, Member of the European Commission
THE FUTURE OF TRADE UNIONS IN “EUROLAND”
Friedrich Verzetnitsch, Member of Parliament; President, Austrian Federation of Trade Unions; President, European Trade Union Confederation

17h00-18h00

SESSION III: HUNGARY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION & NATO
chaired by Otto Graf Lambsdorff

Janos Martonyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs

20h30-22h30
Dinner hosted by the Swedish Group of the Trilateral Commission

Sunday 8 November

08h00-09h30
SPECIAL SESSION ON THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
Introduced by Cees Maas, European Treasurer; Member of the Executive Board & CFO, ING Group, Amsterdam
and remarks by Grigory Yavlinsky, Member of the State Duma Russian Federation

09h45-13h00

SESSION IV: “UNFINISHED PEACE” IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
chaired by David Buchan, Diplomatic Editor, The Financial Times
with reports from the International Crisis Group (ICG)
and by Myles Staunton on his ODHR/OSCE Bosnia Mission

FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND THE FUTURE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Carl Bildt, Former High Representative in Bosnia & Herzogovina; Member of Swedish Parliament; Chairman, Moderate Party
Additional remarks by
Christopher Bennett, Director of the Bosnia/Balkans Project, International Crisis Group, Sarajevo

11h15-13h00
HIGHLIGHT ON BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
Ejup Ganic, President, Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina
Mladen Ivanic, Professor at Banja Luka University; Chairman, Serb Intellectual Forum
Senka Nozica, Lawyer; Vice President, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Sarajevo
Zlatko Lagumzija, Member of Parliament & President of the Social Democratic Party, Sarajevo