Who is Who
Conference "Subsidiarity as a building principle of the European Union" 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 Austria
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 European Commission
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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