By Luís Batistela
The main topics discussed at the meeting were the banking system, artificial intelligence, China, energy transition, Europe, fiscal challenges, India, industrial and trade policy, NATO, Russia, transnational threats, Ukraine, and the US leadership.
The 69th annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group took place in Lisbon from May 18 to 21.
Topics such as artificial intelligence, conflict in Eastern Europe, and US leadership were addressed at the meeting.
An estimated 130 participants from 23 countries were present: business people, politicians, and diplomats.
Among the confirmed vital figures were the following: (see here complete list)
- Jens Stoltenberg – secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
- Dmytro Kuleba – Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Roberta Metsola and Josep Borrel – European Union representatives
- Francisco Pinto Balsemão – former Portuguese Prime Minister and former member of the administrative committee of the Bilderberg Club
- Durão Barroso – former Portuguese prime minister and current non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International Bank
- Mark Rutte – prime minister of the Netherlands
- José Manuel Albares – Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain
- Mette Frederiksen – Prime Minister of Denmark
- Avril Haines – Director of US National Intelligence, former personal assistant to Barack Obama, and former national security assistant from 2015 to 2017
- Henry Kissinger – politician, diplomat, former US Secretary of State, and former US National Security Advisor
- Stacey Abrams – politician, revolutionary activist, and former member of the Georgia (US) House of Representatives
- Peter Thiel – entrepreneur and one of the founders of Paypal
- Anna Applebaum – American writer and journalist
The Group did not disclose the exact location of the meeting.
However, according to Observador newspaper, the meeting took place in the luxurious Pestana Palace Lisbon – a 19th-century palace transformed into a 5-star hotel and member of The Leading Hotels of the World luxury hotel organization – keeping the elitist pattern of the previous colloquiums.
The main topics addressed at the meeting were: the banking system, artificial intelligence, China, energy transition, Europe, fiscal challenges, India, industrial and trade policy, NATO, Russia, transnational threats, Ukraine, and US leadership.
In 2022 the Bilderberg Group met in Washington with about 120 participants from 21 countries.