Liberal International, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HD

194th LI Executive Committee Meeting

12-13 June 2015, Zurich, Switzerland
Programme (09 June 2015)

Friday 12 June

Venue:
Headquarters of the Neue Zrcher Zeitung
Falkenstrasse 11, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland

Registration Hours: 08:00-10:00 and 13:00-15:00

08.00 09.30 CAC Meeting NZZ Room 1
09.30 11.30 European Liberal Forum Workshop NZZ Room 2,3,4
Promoting Subsidiarity Learning from National and European
Examples

Organised by the VVD (the Netherlands)

10.00 13.00 Bureau Meeting and Bilateral Meetings at NZZ NZZ Room 1
11.30 13.30 Ralf Dahrendorf Roundtable NZZ Seehof
Global Implications of a Transatlantic Treaty (separate building)
Organised by the European Liberal Forum (ELF) Seehofstr. 16
(sandwich lunch will be provided) 8008 Zurich

Welcome by
Dr Jrgen Martens, Vice President of ELF and former State
Minister for Justice & European Affairs, Free State of Saxony

Moderated by
Dr Yvonne E. Helble, Journalist, Neue Zrcher Zeitung

Discussion with
Peter Chase, Vice President for Europe, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce

Dr Hsu Tian-Tsair MP, Member of the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan

Lousewies van der Laan, Vice-President, ALDE Party

Alberto Zilio, Director of Public Affairs Europe, AT&T

13.00 14.00 Break | Registration & Welcome of EC delegates

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14.00 15.20 Reflection on the Oxford Conference NZZ Room 1-4

Chair
Dr. Juli Minoves Triquell, President, Liberal International

KEY-NOTE INPUT "LIBERALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY"

Anne Brasseur MP, President, Parliamentary Assembly of
Council of Europe, DP Luxembourg

INPUT "LIBERALISM IN AUTHORITARIAN STATE"

Dato Seri Dr. Wan Azizah MP, Leader of the Opposition, PKR
Malaysia

INPUT "LIBERALISM AND DEVELOPMENT"

Cellou Dialen Diallo, Leader of the major opposition party,
UDFG Guinea
INPUT "LIBERALISM AND SECURITY"
Tinatin Khidasheli, Minister of Defense, RPG Georgia

INPUT "LIBERALISM AND ECONOMY"

Eduardo Montealegre, Leader of the major opposition party, PLI
Nicaragua

Q&A

CONCLUSIONS LIBERALISM LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Helen Zille, Deputy President, Liberal International, Premier of
Western Cape, DA South Africa
15.20 15.30 Break NZZ Room 1-4
15.30 18.30 LI Executive Committee Meeting, Administrative Session NZZ Room 1-4
18.30 19.00 Walk to the Reception venue
19.00 21.00 Reception by APCO Worldwide

Awarding Ceremony of LI Prize for Freedom 2015

To Lord John Alderdice

Caf Terrasse
Limmatquai 3, 8001 Zrich, Switzerland

Saturday 13 June

Venue:
Lake-Side Conference Centre
Bellerivestrasse 170, 8008 Zrich, Switzerland

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08.30 09.30 DOORS OPEN AND NETWORKING ESPRESSO

09.30 09.45 WELCOME BY THE HOST Presenter through the day INITIANTIN Doris Fiala
FRANOIS BAUR President of FDP.Die Liberalen International
VEIT V. DENGLER CEO NZZ Media Group
INITIATOR DORIS FIALA National Councillor (Member of Parliament), FDP.Die
Liberalen Zurich, President of the Swiss delegation to the Council of Europe
DR. JULI MINOVES President, Liberal International
PHILIPP MLLER Member of Parliament and President of FDP.Die Liberalen
CARMEN WALKER SPH President, Women of FDP.Die Liberalen, Senior Councillor,
Zurich Canton
09.45 10.10 KEY SPEAK
BUNDESRAT DIDIER BURKHALTER Head of the Federal Department of Foreign
Affairs (FDFA)
10.10 10.30 Migration and Liberal challenges in South Africa
HELEN ZILLE Premier of Western Cape, South Africa
10.30 10.50 Challenges / opportunities for the future of modern private banking
BORIS F. J. COLLARDI CEO Julius Baer Group Ltd.
10.50 11.05 DISCUSSION WITH THE AUDIENCE
11.05 11.20 Individual Freedom and Creating Rules Why Makes the Liberal Idea Stand Out
From the Conservative
Pierre Bessard Director of the Liberal Institute, Zurich
11.20 11.50 Freedom and Democracy under Pressure Liberalism versus Conservatism
DEBATE
LORD JOHN ALDERDICE Member House of Lords, Director of Centre for Intractable
Conflict at the University of Oxford
PROF. DR. HANS-UELI VOGT Member of Cantonal Council SVP, designierter
Stnderatskandidat, Zurich, Professor of Civil and Commercial Law at the University
of Zurich
11.50 12.00 DISCUSSION WITH THE AUDIENCE
12.00 12.30 Social Indifference versus Liberal Common Sense: We need a liberal counter-
revolution!
KASPAR VILLIGER Former Minister and President of Switzerland, Former
entrepreneur, Chairman of the UBS Foundation of
Economics in Society
12.30 13.45 NETWORKING LUNCH
13.45 14.30 Free Trade Agreement US-EU, TTIP: (Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership)
Big challenges for third countries such as Switzerland

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PANEL DISCUSSION| Presenter:

FELIX E. MULLER Chief Editor NZZ am Sonntag & NZZ Magazine, Member of the
Executive Board of the Neue Zrcher Zeitung AG
Dr. Jan Atteslander Head of Foreign Economic Affairs, economiesuisse
MARTIN NAVILLE CEO Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce
RUEDI NOSER Member of Parliament FDP. Die Liberalen Zurich, Senate Candidate,
Enterpreneuer
JEREMY BEER Counsellor for Political and Economic Affairs at U.S. Embassy in
Switzerland
14.30 14.50 DISCUSSION WITH THE AUDIENCE
14.50 15.35 What conditions do young people need so they can create and preserve
prosperity for their generation?
How can youth entrepreneurship be promoted?
PANEL DISCUSSION | Presenter:
CLAUDINE ESSEIVA Secretary of FDP Women, Senate candidate Bern
SUNNIE J. GROENEVELD Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Inspire 925
SVEN HILGERS Member of Federal Board, Young Liberals Germany (JuLis)
BEATE MEINL-REISINGER Chair of NEOS Vienna and Deputy Federal Chair NEOS
RENAN SANTOS Co-leader Movimento Brasil Libre
ANDRI SILBERSCHMIDT President Young Liberals FDP. Die Liberalen for Canton
Zurich
15.35 15.55 DISCUSSION WITH THE AUDIENCE
15.55 16.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 17.15 Freedom, Chances and Responsibility in the Digital Age
PANEL DISCUSSION Presenter:
MARIE-ASTRID LANGER Editor in the Foreign Section of Neue Zrcher Zeitung
VEIT V. DENGLER CEO NZZ Media Group
URSULA UTTINGER lic. iur, President, Data Protection Forum Switzerland
PATRICK WARNKING Country Director, Google Switzerland
NICHOLAS WHYTE Director, APCO Worldwide
17.15 17.35 DISCUSSION WITH THE AUDIENCE
17.35 17.50 CONCLUSION AND CLOSING
17.50 19.00 NETWORKING APRO

Sunday 14 June
Travel to Geneva for participants of the 3rd Annual Liberal Human Rights
Parliamentarians Meeting at the United Nations