Who is Who

Conference "Subsidiarity as a building principle of the " Thursday 15 and Friday 16 November 2018

Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2018 Media programme

Imprint

Event: Conference "Subsidiarity as a building principle of the European Union"

Date: 15 - 16 September 2018

Venue: Bregenz Festival House (Festspielhaus Bregenz), Platz der Wiener Symphoniker 1, 6900 Bregenz

Host: Federal Chancellery of

Editor: Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

Version: 14 November 2018

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Speakers

AUSTRIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Sebastian Kurz

Federal Chancellor

AUSTRIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Gernot Blümel

Federal Minister within the Federal Chancellery for EU, Arts, Culture and Media

GOVERNMENT OF VORARLBERG

Markus Wallner

Governor of Vorarlberg

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Frans Timmermans

First Vice-President, Better Regulation, Inter- Institutional Relations, Rule of Law and Charter of Fundamental Rights

EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS

Karl-Heinz Lambertz

President and Member of the Task Force

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Viviane Reding

Former Vice-President of the

ROMANIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Melania-Gabriela Ciot

Secretary of State for European Affairs

CATHOLIC CHURCH VORARLBERG

Benno Elbs

Bishop of Feldkirch

SWISS NATIONAL COUNCIL

Kathy Riklin

Member of the Swiss National Council

AUSTRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL

Reinhold Lopatka

Chair of the EU Sub-Committee of the Austrian National Council and Member of the EU-Task Force on Subsidiarity and Proportionality and “Doing Less More Efficiently”

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AUSTRIAN FEDERAL COUNCIL

Christian Buchmann

Chair of the EU-Committee of the Austrian Federal Council

SMEUNITED | AUSTRIAN FEDERAL ECONOMIC CHAMBER

Ulrike Rabmer-Koller

President | Vice-President

FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN

Christian Calliess

Professor for European Law, Free University Berlin, External Legal Adviser to the European Political Strategy Center (EPSC) of the European Commission

INSTITUTE OF THE REGIONS OF EUROPE

Franz Schausberger

Chair

AUSTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPALITIES

Alfred Riedl

President

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BERTELSMANN FOUNDATION

Christian Kastrop

Director

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Photo Credits

Blümel © Andreas Wenzel

Buchmann © Parlamentsdirektion / Thomas Jantzen

Caliess © Caliess

Cioa © Ministry of Foreign Affairs Romania

Elbs © Katholische Kirche Vorarlberg

Kastrop © Kai Uwe Oesterhelweg/Bertelsmann Stiftung.

Kurz © Council of the European Union - General Secretariat 2018

Lambertz © European Committee of the Regions

Lopatka © Parlamentsdirektion / Photo Simonis

Rabmer-Koller © Rabmer-Koller

Reding © Reding

Riedl © Matern

Riklin © Riklin

Schausberger © Neumayr

Timmermans © AFP Services

Wallner © Landespressestelle/Studio Fasching

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