Participants of the 170th Bergedorf Round Table
An Ever More Divided Union? Finding Common Ground after a Decade of Crises
in Budapest, 22-24 March 2019
Prof. Dr. Péter Balázs, fmr. Foreign Minister of Hungary; Professor; Director, Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS), Central European University (CEU), Budapest
Jean-Christophe Belliard, Deputy Secretary-General, Political Affairs, European External Action Service (EEAS), Brussels
Dr. Benedetta Berti, Head, Policy Planning Unit, Office of the Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Brussels; Munich Young Leader 2013
Ralf Beste, Head, Policy Planning Staff, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
Dr. Franziska Brantner, MP, Spokesperson, European Policy, Alliance 90/The Greens, German Bundestag, Berlin
Dr. József Czukor, Director General, Információs Hivatal, Budapest
Gijs de Vries, Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London
Joschka Fischer, fmr. Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany; Managing Partner, Joschka Fischer & Company, Berlin
Gergely Gulyás, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office, Budapest
Ambassador Dr. Péter Imre Györkös, Ambassador of Hungary to the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
Miklós Hajnal, Member of the Presidency, Momentum, Budapest
Elisabeth von Hammerstein, Programme Director International Affairs, Körber-Stiftung, Berlin
Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Minister President of the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg
Prof. Dr. Danuta Hübner, MEP, Chair, Committee on Constitutional Affairs, European Parliament, Brussels
Marián Jakubócy, Director General, Political Directorate General, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Bratislava
Dr. Bruno Kahl, President, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Berlin
Alexander Kulitz, MP, Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs, German Bundestag, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Charles Kupchan, fmr. Special Assistant to the President of the United States of America; Professor of International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Prof. Paul Lendvai, Editor-in-Chief, Europäische Rundschau, Vienna
Matthias Lüttenberg, Head, Division Bilateral Relations with the States of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, Federal Chancellery, Berlin; Munich Young Leader 2010
Jan Macháček, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Institute for Politics and Society, Prague
Dr. Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Director, International University College (IUC), Turin
Nora Müller, Executive Director International Affairs, Körber-Stiftung, Berlin
Dr. Andreas Nick, MP, Head of German Delegation; Vice President, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs, German Bundestag, Berlin
Natalie Nougayrède, Columnist, Europe Now, The Guardian, London
Delphine O, MP, Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Assemblée Nationale, Paris; Munich Young Leader 2019
Maciej Pisarski, Head, Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw
Ambassador Dr. Ursula Plassnik, fmr. Foreign Minister of the Republic of Austria; Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Austria to the Swiss Confederation, Bern
Ambassador Maciej Popowski, Deputy Director-General, Southern Neighbourhood, Turkey, Migration/Refugees and Security Issues, Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), European Commission, Brussels
Gergely Prőhle, Director, Otto Habsburg Foundation, Budapest
Thomas Raines, Head, Europe Programme, Chatham House, London
Ambassador Janusz Reiter, Founder; Chairman of the Board, Centre for International Relations, Warsaw
Dr. Anna Sauerbrey, Deputy Editor in Chief; Head, Opinion Pages, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie, Chair, Diplomacy II, Andrássy Universität Budapest (AUB), Budapest
Dr. Daniela Schwarzer, Director, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin
Ambassador Sibylle Sorg, Director, Relations with European Union Member States, Cross-Border and Regional Cooperation, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
Tomasz Szatkowski, Under-Secretary of State; Deputy Minister of Defence, Ministry of National Defence, Warsaw; Munich Young Leader 2019
Dr. Bernadett Szél, MP, Member, Committee on European Affairs, Országgyűlés, Budapest
Zsuzsanna Szelényi, fmr. Member, Országgyűlés; Non-Resident Fellow, Europe’s Futures Program, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
Dr. Stefan Tinca, Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bucharest; Munich Young Leader 2009
Tomáš Valášek, Director, Carnegie Europe, Brussels
Dr. Klaus Wehmeier, Chairman, Advisory Board, Körber-Stiftung, Hamburg
Jakob von Weizsäcker, Chief Economist, Director-General, Directorate-General for Economic and Fiscal Policy Strategy, International Economy and Finance, Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin
Ambassador Volkmar Wenzel, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Hungary, Budapest
Dr. Richard Wike, Director, Global Attitudes Research, Pew Research Center, Washington, DC
Caroline Wilson, Europe Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London