Quote of the Day

«We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.»
H.L. Mencken

2008

onsdag, 06 januar 2010

2008:



Breakfast seminar 24/9: Do we need the budgetary rule? (the usage of capital gains from The Government Pension Fund - Global of Norway)
Speakers: Head of Research at Statistics Norway Ådne Cappelen, Chief Economist at First Securities Harald Magnus Andreassen, Chief Economist at Glitnir Elisabeth Holvik and Economist at DnB Nor Nils Terje Furunes.

Breakfast seminar 5/9: Russia - A new cold war?

Speakers: State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Espen Barth- Eide (Labour Party) and professor at the University of Oslo, Iver B. Neumann. 


Breakfast seminar 19/8: USA - American political campaigning 
Speaker: Kevin Lampe, Executive Vice President of the strategic communications firm Kurth Lampe. 


Breakfast seminar 11/6: Why democracy?
Speakers: Vice President of the Storting, Carl I. Hagen (The Progress Party), the Parliamentary Ombudsman Arne Fliflet, President of the Lagting Inge Lønning (The Conservative Party) and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford and author of the book "What Democracy is for", Stein Ringen. 


Breakfast seminar 3/6: Competition policy
Speakers:


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reakfast seminar 9/5: Health - The right to health and happiness
Speakers: Inge Lønning, President of the Lagting and a Parliamentary Member for the Conservative Party. Lars Fr. H. Svendsen, Project Manager at Civita and Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen. Pål Gulbrandsen, Head of Research at the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services. 



Evening seminar 6/5: MWENDA - Foreign aid policy is the problem, not the solution
Speaker: Andrew Mwenda, Editor at the Ugandan newspaper The Independent

Breakfast seminar 16/4: China - Sports and politics
Speakers: Parliamentary Member for the Conservative Party Olemic Thommesen, Former Olympic Athlete Ådne Søndrål, Minster of Information and International Relations Kesang Takla of Tibet, and Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Koen Wellens.


Breakfast seminar 4/4: Development -  The left wing wind in Latin-America
Speakers: Erik Solheim, Minister of the Environment and International Development (Socialist Left Party) and Mauricio Rojas, Member of the Swedish Riksdag (The Liberal Party).


Breakfast seminar 6/3: Surveillance: Data processing and privacy protection

Speakers: Assisting Director of Kripos, Ketil Haukaas, Director of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate Georg Apenes, and the European Union Ambassador to Norway, Percy Westerlund. 


Breakfast seminar 4/3: Sixty-eighter: Idealism gone awry?
Speakers: Lars Groth, Professor and Former Student Politician, Christian Vennerød, Editor, and Håkon Kolmannskog of the Publisher Manifest.  


Breakfast seminar 26/2: NATO: Has the alliance a future?
Speakers:Asle Toje, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Defence Studies, Janne Haaland Matlary, Professor of International Politics at the University of Oslo, and Stanley R. Sloan, Head of the Atlantic Community Initiative. 

 

 

Breakfast seminar 6/2: After Super Tuesday
Speakers:Dag Inge Fjeld, Strategic Director of PhD, and Jan Arild Snoen, writer at Minerva.



Breakfast seminar 18/1-2008: The debate on quotas
Speakers: Minister of Children and Equality Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen, founder of The Centre for Justice in Stockholm Gunnar Strömmer, Senior Researcher at Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Ronald Craig and Oslo City Parliament candidate for The Progress Party Mazyar Keshvari.

Seminar 15/1-2008: Free immigration
For the Minister of labour and social inclusion Bjarne Håkon Hanssen and his political staff.
Speakers: Journalist and writer of the book "Immigrants - Your country needs them", Philippe Legrain, Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Jonathon Moses, Associate Professor of Economic History at Lund University, Benny Carlson, and Professor of Economics Kjetil Storesletten.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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