Free Market Road Show
May 4 - 14, 2008

Vienna - May 4 - 6
Portorož (Slovenia) - May 7
Berlin - May 8 - 9
Prague - May 11 - 12
Brussels - May 14

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EICEE is determined to help ensure free-market economics has a positive, long lasting impact on the growing nations of CEE.  Therefore, on May 4 -14, 2008, EICEE has planned a “Free Market Road Show,” where business leaders, university professors, politicians, sports stars, economists and journalists will travel to four European cities and be given a platform to discuss the importance of free-markets in Europe. 

EICEE and the road show participants will travel to Vienna, Prague, Berlin and Brussels.  Each city will host a different monumental discussion on economics and the importance of the free market system.  Because of its format and its discussion with world-renowned leaders, the road show has the potential to spark an entrepreneurial spirit and directly impact the next generation of leaders of Central and Eastern European nations. 

A book, discussing the ideas presented at the road show will be published shortly after, which will have the ability to impact many more CEE people and decision makers.

Top individuals from all over the world will come together for this Free-Market Road Show to discuss the topics of:

• Conditions for Success in a Competitive World;
• Frameworks for Competition;
• Values which are fighting for;
• Market Deregulation in the EU;
• Factor of Economic Growth;
• Labor Unions as a Factor of Business Environment; and much more

Confirmed speakers of the Free Market Road Show include:

• Prof. Hardy Bouillon (University of Trier);
• John Blundell (IEA);
• Victoria Curzon-Price (University of Geneva);
• Prof. Lars Feld (Heidelberg);
• Pierre Garello (Director of  IES-Europe);
• Boyden Gray (US Ambassador to the EU);
• Robert Gruber (CEO Raiffeisen Bank);
• Michael Heise (Chief Ecomonist Allianz/Dresdner Bank);
• Berhard Heitzer (Gen. Director Federal Competition Authority, Bonn);
• Jesús Huerta de Soto (Austrian School economist and Professor of Political Economy at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid);
• Anthony de Jasay (Philosopher and Economist);
• Silvana Kock-Mehrin (EU Parliament);
• Neelie Kroes (EU Commission);
• Mart Laar (former Prime Mister of Estonia);
• Graf Lambsdorff (former Minister of the German Economy);
• Robert Lawson (Professor of Economics at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio and co-author of the Economic Freedom of the World);
• Dieter Mateschitz (CEO Red Bull AG);
• Eduardo Mayora (UFM, Guatemala);
• Herbert Meier (Olympic Gold Medalist);
• Dan Mitchell (Heritage Institute’s Chief Economist);
• Mario Monti (EU Commission);
• Zdenka Pavcek (Slovenian Chamber of Commerce); 
• Steve Pejovich (TAMU);
• José Piñera (World renowned Chilean free-market economist);
• Edward Prescott (Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2004);
• Richard Rahn (Center for Global Economic Growth);
• Wolfgang Schussel (former Chancellor of Austria);
• Marko Simoneti (Ljublijana Stock Exchange);
• Andrej Sircelj (State Secretary at the Finance Ministry);
• Theodor Thanner (Gen. Director Federal Competition Authority, Vienna);
• Ziga Turk (Minister of Economic Development);
• Prof. Carl Christian v. Weizsacker (Director of the Energy Economics Institute at the University of Cologne);
• Michael Wohlgemuth (Univ. of Freiburg); and many more