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Following the first successful meeting, the Hungarian Business Leaders Forum (HBLF) and ICEG European Center organised a high-level one-day conference on
Financial Summit II.
130 points - 100 steps - 1 reform State Building or State-cutback?
Date: 16. September, 2005.
Venue: Great Conference Hall of the Hungariqan Academy of Sciences
(9. Roosevelt square, Budapest, H-1051)
The language of the conference was Hungarian with English impersonation.
The purpose of the conference was to discuss the most important questions, open problems and alternative opinions concerning the structural reform of public finances.
Mr Istvan Stumpf and Mr. Lajos Bokros were the main speakers of the conference. Similarly to the Spring event, in the framework of a roundtable discussion current and former ministers of finance expressed their opinions about the structural problems of public finances. The agenda also includeded the reform of human infrastructure, pension system, healthcare, tax system and legal infrastructure.
For the first time, leading representatives of foreign embassies shared their opinions about the current assessment of our country and the needed reform measures.
The following people gave a speech at the Conference:
István Stumpf, President, "Századvég" Foundation
Lajos Bokros, Professor, First Vice President, Central European University
András Bodor, Consultant with the World Bank, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Georgetown University
Imre Holló, Healthcare Expert, European Investment BankCsaba László, Former Minister of FinanceLászló Urbán, Economist
Tamás Mellár, Professor, Corvinus University, Budapest
Tibor Draskovics, Former Minister of Finance
Ashok Mody, Chief of Mission, IMFTibor Draskovics, Former Minister of Finance
Csaba László, Former Minister of Finance
Mihály Varga, Former Minister of Finance
János Veres, Minister of FinanceRobert Hage - Ambassador of Canada
Philippe Zeller - Ambassador of France
John Nichols - Ambassador of Great Britain
Teruyoshi Inagawa - Ambassador of Japan
George H. Walker - Ambassador of the United State
The ppt presentations of the conferece can be viewed here (in Hungarian language).
If you have any further questions about this event, please contact Tamás Borkó at 248 1160, or tborko@icegec.hu.