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The Failure of the Welfare State. Market Based Solutions to the Economic Crisis

September 27, Howard Johnson, Platinum Ballroom

Welcome coffee 11:20 –

11:50

Panel 1: Economic recovery between private initiative and the state

Valeriu Stoica (Moderator)

Professor of Law at the University

Of Bucharest

Introduction 11:50 –

12:00

Tom Palmer

Vice President for International

Programs at Atlas Economic

Research Foundation, Senior Fellow

at Cato Institute, Washington D.C.

Keynote Speech: The Welfare State, More Vulnerable to

the Crisis

12:00–

12:15

Lothar Funk

Konrad Adenauer, Germany,

University of Applied Sciences,

Duesseldorf

Lessons of the Social Market Economy for More Stable

Economic Growth and Prosperity

12:15 –

12:30

Pierre Garello

Director of IES‐Europe, is Professor

of Economics at Paul Cézanne

University in

Aix‐en‐Provence

Public Services Can Be Externalized to the Market

12:30 –

12:45

Sever Voinescu

Member of Parliament

Moral Bases of Capitalism. The Romanian Case

12:45 –

13:00

Questions and Comments

13:00 –

13:30

Meal (Informal talk) 13:30 –

14:20

Panel 2: Public Policy Proposals

Note: In Romanian, simultaneous translation in headphones available

Dan Suciu (Moderator)

Producer at Money Channel and

Columnist at ‚22’

Introducere 14:20 –

14:30

Theodor Stolojan

Member of the European

Parliament

Deregulating the Labor Market and Reforming the

Insurance and Welfare Systems)

14:30 –

14:45

Varujan Pambuccian

Member of Parliament

The End of Utopia. Reform Proposals

14:45 –

15:00

Valentin Ionescu

Fmr. Minister of Privatizations

(1997‐1998)

The Market for Local Public Utilities. Regulations and Perspectives for Privatization)15:00 –

15:15

Lucian Croitoru

Counselor to the Governor of the

Central Bank and fmr.Representative to the IMF (2003‐

2007)

External Financial Pressures and Social Imperatives.

Recommendations)

15:15 –

15:30

Questions and Comments

15:30 –

16:15