Preparations for Brussels Forum
2008 are underway

Brussels Forum 2008, to be held March 14-16, promises another exciting mixture of ideas and leaders from both sides of the Atlantic.  Preliminary topics include: climate change, conflict regions such as Afghanistan and Iran, leadership change in Russia, civil liberties and democracy promotion, international trade and regulation, China on the global stage, and many others from the realms of economics and foreign policy.

The topical agenda for next year's sessions and lunches is here.  Please revisit www.brusselsforum.org for future updates.

Brussels Forum is an annual high-level meeting of the most influential American and European political, corporate, and intellectual leaders to address pressing challenges currently facing both sides of the Atlantic. 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.

Today, the United States and Europe are striving to deepen transatlantic cooperation on a vast array of distinctly new, global challenges from promoting stable states and economic opportunities to confronting climate change and energy security, yet there is no single transatlantic forum focused on this broad and increasingly complex global agenda. Brussels Forum provides a venue for the transatlantic community to address these pressing issues.

Brussels Forum is put on by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), the Bertelsmann Stiftung, DaimlerChrysler, and the Federal Authorities of Belgium & the Egmont Institute. Additional sponsors include Fortis and the Ministry of Defence Republic of Latvia.