After the euro

Shattering the EU’s dreams
The euro is at the heart of the economic crisis within the European Union. The Bruges Group is hosting an international conference to advocate the dismantling of the Single Currency, prevent the impending disaster of Fiscal Union and halt taxpayers' money being used to bailout the euro.

Saturday, 5th November 2011
10.30am until 6.15pm

With the speakers

Christopher Booker is a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of the Bruges Group paper Britain and Europe: The Culture of Deceit. And also co-wrote The Great Deception and Scared To Death. The title of Christopher’s talk is; The euro and global warming: the shattering of the EU’s dreams.

Matthew Lynn is a thriller writer and financial journalist. He is the author of the ‘Death Force’ series of novels. He is also the author of Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis. Matthew Lynn is also a columnist for Bloomberg News, and a regular contributor to; The Spectator, The Sunday Times and MarketWatch.

Richard Sulík is a senior Slovakian politician and leader of the Freedom and Solidarity Party. He has become an important opponent of the bailout of the euro. He recently told the Slovakian parliament that; “I’d rather be a pariah in Brussels than have to feel ashamed before my children, who would be deeper in debt should I back raising the volume of funding in the EFSF.”

Professor Jean-Jacques Rosa is an eminent French economist and Eurosceptic. As long ago as 1999 he described the Single Currency as ‘a time bomb’. He advocates France leaving the euro.


Roger Nightingale is an economist and strategist specialising in international economics and finances. He assesses the implications for monetary policy, and examines the outlook for securities and currencies. He is a leading speaker at conferences for institutional traders, fund managers, pension providers and hedge funds.

Professor Anthony Coughlan is Ireland’s leading EU-Critical campaigners and the Director of the Dublin based National Platform EU Research and Information Centre. He is also a Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin.


Gerard Batten MEP, representing London for UKIP, is an expert on the costs of EU membership, the case for withdrawal and the EU’s impact on immigration. He is also a vociferous campaigner against the European Arrest Warrant and the creation of a European system of criminal law. Gerard will talk on the mechanics of leaving the EU.

Professor Tim Congdon, CBE is one of Britain’s leading economic commentators. He is also the author of the Bruges Group papers, Will the EU’s Constitution Rescue its Currency? And The City of London Under Threat: The EU and its attack on Britain’s most successful industry.


Professor David Myddelton has been Professor of Finance and Accounting at the Cranfield School of Management and is the Chairman of the Trustees of the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is the author of They Meant Well: Government Project Disasters.

ADMISSION: £20 payable on the door or in advance
Including lunch, coffee, wine, orange juice, mineral water, tea and cheese and biscuits

To purchase your ticket visit:
www.brugesgroup.com/meetings
Or call Robert Oulds on 020 7287 4414, or reply to this e-mail

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LOCATION:
The Great Hall, King's College London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS

AGENDA:
Registration and Coffee: 10.30am
Morning Session: 11am – 1pm

Lunch: 1pm – 2pm
Afternoon Session: 2pm – 4pm

Refreshments: 4pm - 4.15pm
Evening Session: 4.15pm – 6.15pm