Relaunching the Transatlantic Partnership

Relaunching the Transatlantic Partnership: Common Goals and Shared Values was an Atlanticist conference held at the Aldrovandi Palace Hotel in Rome from 2-4 October 2003. It was organised by the Aspen Institute Italia and John O'Sullivan's New Atlantic Initiative under the auspices of The Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Italy and co-sponsored by The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NATO Public Diplomacy Division and The American Embassy in Rome.

Speakers

The speakers were: Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute; Beppe Severgnini, Columnist, “Corriere della Sera”, Milan; Carlo Scognamiglio, Chairman, Aspen Institute Italia; Professor Guido Carli, LUISS , Rome; Christopher DeMuth, President, American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC; Jim Nicholson, US Ambassador to the Holy See, Michael Novak, , American Enterprise Institute; Josef Joffe, Editor, “Die Zeit“; Richard N. Perle, American Enterprise Institute; Enrico Letta, Member of the Italian Parliament; John Bruton, Vice-President, European People's Party; Javier Solana Madariaga, High Representative for CFSP, European Union - Council of Ministers, Brussels; Danielle Pletka, Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute, Emma Bonino, Member of the European Parliament, Brussels; Michael Ledeen, Resident Scholar in the Freedom Chair, American Enterprise Institute; Melvin F. Sembler, US Ambassador to Italy; Gianfranco Fini, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy; Ana Palacio Vallelersundi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madrid; John O’Sullivan, Editor, “The National Interest”; Carl Bildt, Former UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Balkans, United Nations, Geneva; Karsten D. Voigt, Coordinator for German American Relations, Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin; John R. Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, US Department of State; Franco Frattini, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rome; Lucio Stanca, Minister for Innovation and Technology; Vice Chairman, Aspen Institute Italia, Rome; Ralf Dahrendorf, Member of the House of Lords; Kevin A. Hassett, Resident Scholar, Director of Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute; Daniel Gros, Director, Centre for European Policy Studies; Bruce Kovner, Chairman, Caxton Associates, New York; Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Director for International Financial Relations, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Rome; Alessandro Minuto Rizzo, Deputy Secretary General, NATO, Brussels; Gary Schmitt, Executive Director, Project for the New American Century; James F. Dobbins, Director, Center for International Security and Defense Policy, RAND Corporation; Roberto Testore, Managing Director and Director General, Finmeccanica, Rome; Simon Webb, Policy Director, Ministry of Defence, London; Radek Sikorski, Executive Director, New Atlantic Initiative; Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.