How much „Europe“ do we need? How much welfare state can we afford? And how to bring our economies back on the right track? These are the topics that will be discussed on the Free Market Road Show in Bratislava, to which we would like to invite you kindly. FMRS is coorganized by INESS in cooporeation with Conservative Institute, Austrian Economic Center and other foreign partners. Analysts of INESS will speak in the panels as well.

Time: Fri 7th, June 2013
Location: Hotel Danube, Rybné námestie 1, Bratislava, Slovakia
Program:

8:00       Entry & Registration
8:30       Welcome and Introduction

Barbara Kolm (President, Austrian Economics Center)
Peter Gonda (Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik)

Panel 1

More Europe vs. Less Europe:
How much Europe can we really afford?

8:40       Chair:                   Jonáš Záborský (Trend)
Keynote:             Tom Miers (Director, New Direction Foundation)
Panelists:

Barbara Kolm (Director, Austrian Economics Center)
Razeen Sally (Director, European Centre for International Political Economy)
Peter Gonda (Director, Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik)
Juraj Karpiš (Analyst, INESS)

10:00     Coffee Break

Panel 2

Deregulation vs. Regulation:
What brings an economy back on track

10:20     Chair:                   Richard Ďurana (Director, INESS)
Keynote:             Matt Kibbe (President and CEO of FreedomWorks)
Panelists:

Tom G. Palmer (Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Vice President for International Programs)
Richard Rahn (Senior fellow of the Cato Institute and the Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth)
Edward Stringham (Director, Lloyd V. Hackley Endowement; Professor of the Study of Capitalism and Free Enterprise, Fayetteville State University; Editor of Journal of Private Enterprise)

11:40     Coffee Break

Panel 3

Welfare vs. Opportunities:
Can youth unemployment be solved with more state intervention — or more freedom?

12:20     Chair:                   Lukáš Krivošík (.týždeň)
                Keynote:             Jose Piñera (Distinguished Senior Fellow, Cato Institute)
Panelists:

Terry Anker (CEO, The Anker Consulting Group)
Dan Mitchell (Senior fellow, Cato Institute)
Richard Zundritsch (Independent accredited management consultant and trainer in finance)

13:40     Evaluation and Conclusion

                                               Barbara Kolm (Director, Austrian Economics Center)

14:00     Press Conference