April 21st, 2015

Venue

Opening Address

14:00 – 14:15

Geoffrey Van Orden MEP (President, New Direction – The Foundation for European Reform)

Tomasz Poreba MEP (Vice-President, New Direction – The Foundation for European Reform)

Panel 1: To Grow or not to Grow: from secular stagnation to robust recovery

14:15 – 15:30

Keynote

Sander Loones MEP (Vice-Chair, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Parliament)

Panelists

Pieter Cleppe (Head of Brussels Office,Open Europe)

Josh Gilder (Senior Director, White House Writers Group)

Dan Mitchell(Senior Fellow, Cato Institute)

Q&A

Coffee break

15:30 – 15:45

Panel 2: Entrepreneurship and its enemies: how to set our creative energy free

15:45 – 17:15

Keynote

Daniel Hannan MEP (Secretary General, Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists)

Panel

Kerry Halferty – Hardy (Public Affairs/External relations/Non-profits, Principal at Alcuin Advisors LLC)

Oliver Kaye (Director, Luther Pendragon Brussels)

Q&A

Conclusion Remarks

17:15 – 17:30

Barbara Kolm (Director, Austrian Economics Center)

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