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XXIIIth Meeting of European Group
Athens, October 22-24, 1999
Conference Chairman: Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Host Country Chairman: Stelios Argyros
Friday 22 October
19h30
Reception at the Presidency of the Republic
- Costas Stephanopoulos, President of the Republic
20h45
Dinner hosted by the Bank of Greece in the Ancient Agora of the Acropolis
- Costas Simitis, Prime Minister
Saturday 23 October
09h00-12h00
SESSION I: GREECE
chaired by Lucas Papademos, Governor, The Bank of Greece
Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor, University of Athens and at the London
School of Economics
Angelos Stangos, Editor-in-Chief, To Vima
Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Chief Executive, Delta Dairy
Panayis Vourloumis, Chairman and Managing Director, Alpha Finance
12h30-14h00
Luncheon with guest speaker
Costas Karamanlis, Member of Parliament and Leader of the New Democracy
Party
14:30-17h30
SESSION II: BALKAN REGIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION:
Building Political Stability in SouthEast Europe
chaired by Stelios Argyros
Thanos Veremis, President, Helenic Foundation for European & Foreign
Policy, Athens
Paskal Milo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Albania
Alexandre Boshkov, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Industry,
Bulgaria
Ljubco Georgievski, Prime Minister, FYR of Macedonia
Valeriu Stoica, Minister of Justice, Romania
Aleksa Djilas, Author, Belgrade, Serbia/TRV
Ismail Cem, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
20h30
Dinner hosted by the Alpha Credit Bank at the Zappeion Megaron
(site of Greece’s EU accession signature)
- Romano Prodi, President-designate, European Commission
Sunday 24 October
08h00-9h15
SESSION III (over breakfast): KOSOVO
- Veton Surroi, Editor-in-Chief, Koha Ditore, Pristina
09h30-13h00
SESSION IV: THE EUROPEAN UNION IN 2010: A NEED OF VISION
chaired by Otto Lambsdorff
Jorge Sampaio, President of the Republic of Portugal
Ron Sommer, Chairman, Deutsche Telekom, Bonn
Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science & Director, Institute
for European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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