April 14th, 2015

Venue

Agenda

14.30 – 15:00 Registration

15:00 – 15:10 Welcome Address

Richard Durana ( Director – INESS)
Barbara Kolm (Director, Austrian Economics Center)

Patrick Sagmeister (Commercial Counsellor of the Austrian Embassy and Head of the Austrian Trade Commission in Bratislava)

15:10 – 15:30 Opening Speech : Europe’s Geopolitical Challenges

Gabriela von Habsburg (Senior Fellow, Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies)

15: 10 – 16: 20 Panel 1: To Grow or not to Grow? From Secular Stagnation to Robust Recovery

Moderator

Robert Zitnansky (Former Advisor to Minister of Finance and journalist)

Keynote speech

Erich Weede (Professor Universität Bonn, member of the Mont Pelerin Society and the Hayek-Gesellschaft)

Panelists

Juraj Karpis (INESS – Institute of Economic and Social Studies)

Manfred Kastner (President of the Board, Vision MicroFinance)

Christof Zeller-Zellenberg (President at Europa Institut)

16:20 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17: 40 Panel 2: Entrepreneurship and its enemies. How to set Our Creative Energy Free 

Moderator

Marcela Simkova (Editor in Chief, Economic Daily)

Keynote speech

Ekkart Zimmermann (Dresden University of Technology, Chair in Macrosociology)

Panelists

Roland Fritz (Research Fellow, Austrian Economics Center)

Ivan Jovetić (Senior Analyst, Institute for Studies and Projections)

Ivana Molnarova (CEO, Profesia.sk)

Leos Novotny (CEO and owner, Leo Express, Czech Republic)

Tanja Porcnik (President, Svetilnik, Slovenia)

17:40 – 18:00 Q&A and Closing Remarks. 

Richard Durana (Director – INESS)

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