Bilderberg/2003
Versailles, France
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| Date | 15 May 2003 - 18 May 2003 |
| Location | Versailles, France |
| Description | The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France |
| Perpetrators | Bilderberg/Steering committee |
| Participants | Étienne Davignon, J. Martin Taylor, Alexandre Adler, Alfredo Ambrosetti, Ali Babacan, Dora Bakoyannis, Edward Balls, Francisco Pinto Balsemao, José Durão Barroso, Mehmet Bayar, Erich Becker, Rodolfo de Bendetti, Franco Bernabe, Nicolas Beytout, Ahmad E. Bishara, Conrad Black, Frits Bolkestein, John Bolton, Michel Bon, Jean-Louis Bruguière, Hubert Burda, Philippe Camus, Anthony J. Cary, Henri de Castries, Juan Luis Cebrian, Willy Claes, Kenneth Clarke, Timothy C. Collins, Bertrand Collomb, Jean-François Copé, Jon S. Corzine, Claes Dahlbäck, George A. David, Thomas E. Donilon, Mario Draghi, Anders Eldrup, Martin Feldstein, Anthony S. Fell, Thomas L. Friedman, Jean-Louis Gergorin, Paul Gigot, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Svein Gjedrem, Dermot Gleeson, Philip Gould, Richard N. Haass, Victor Halberstadt, Stephen Harper, Roger Hertog, Jaap G. de Hoop Scheffer, Allan B. Hubbard, R. Glenn Hubbard, James A. Johnson, Vernon Jordan,Walter B. Kielholz, Mervyn A. King, Henry Kissinger, Olli Kivinen, Wim Kok, Hilmar Kopper, Henry R. Kravis, Marie-Josée Kravis, Pascal Lamy, Pierre Lellouche, André Levy-Lang, Anna Lindh, Paavo Lipponen, Mogens Lykketoft, Margaret MacMillan, Mikhail V. Margelov, Thierry de Montbrial, Mario Monti, Craig J. Mundie, Egil Myklebust, Matthias Naß, Beatrix Armgard, Andrzej Olechowski, Jorma Ollila, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Marco Panara, Corrado Passera, George Perkovich, Richard Perle, H.R.H. Prince Philippe, Roberto Poli, Denis Ranque, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Heather Reisman, Franck Riboud, Michael Ringier, David Rockefeller, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Matias Rodriguez Inciarte, Olivier Roy, John Ruggie, Anthony Ruys, Özdem Sanberk, Paolo Scaroni, Wolfgang Schäuble, Otto Schily, Rudolf Scholten, Jürgen E. Schrempp, Klaus Schwab, Toger Seidenfaden, Lilia Shevtsova, Queen Sofía of Spain, James B. Steinberg, Mark Steyn, Peter D. Sutherland, John L. Thornton, Jean Claude Trichet, Loukas Tsoukalis, Gertrude Trumpel-Gugerell, Daniel L. Vasella, Jeroen van der Veer, Philippe Villin, Klaas de Vries, Björn Wahlroos, Jacob Wallenberg, Gareth Williams (politician), Martin H. Wolf, James Wolfensohn, Paul Wolfowitz, Fareed Zakaria, Robert Zoellick, Klaus Zumwinkel, |
| Witnessed by | John Micklethwait, Gideon Rachman |
The 2003 Bilderberg Meeting was the 51st such meeting and had participants from European countries, the United States and Canada. It was held at Versailles, France. The guests included business executives, politicians, financiers, editors/journalists and academics. Exceptionally, guests included Ahmad Bishara, a Kuwaiti. The next meeting was the 2004 Bilderberg.
Agenda
The 2003 Bilderberg Agenda has not been leaked, but the website at Bilderberg Meetings has posted an agenda.
1. The Middle East II: Future
2. The Middle East I: Overview
3. Post-Iraq: The Future of Multilateral Organisations
4. Re-Energising Germany
5. Post-Mortem on Iraq: Diplomatic Failure and the Foreign Policy Consequences
6. Non-Proliferation
7. The European Convention
8. The World's Economic Problems
9. Aspects of Terrorism
10. Current Affairs
Premature death
The meeting was attended by Gareth Williams then Leader of the House of Lords, who on 13 June became also Lord President of the Council. Williams suddenly died at his home in Gloucestershire on 20 September, aged 62. It was his second Bilderberg (he also attended in 2002). Anna Lindh, Sweden's Minister of Foreign Affairs, another guest, was fatally stabbed on 10 September 2003.[1]