Viscount Etienne Davignon (in picture), the president of the annunal conference of the Bilderberg group, will be in Romania at the end of this week to deliver a conference at the Romanian Central Bank (BNR). He was invited by the BNR governor Mugur Isarescu and will deliver a speech on the 'European Union after the sovereign debt crisis'.

Étienne Francois Jacques Davignon (Viscount Davignon) is a Belgian politician, businessman, and former vice-president of the European Commission.

The Bilderberg Club is an annual, unofficial, and invitation-only conference that gathers around140 guests from North America and Western Europe. The club gathers influential people like politicians, bankers, business people who meet and talk about worldwide issues.

The group's steering committee president is Henri de Castries, head of insurer Axa. Bilderberg takes its name from the hotel in Holland, where the first meeting took place in May 1954. The group's latest meeting in St. Moritz, from June this year, gathers guests like David Rockefeller, Former Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank Peter Löscher, the President and CEO of Siemens AG, John Micklethwait, the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, Walter Rothensteiner, Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG, Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google Inc., Peter Sutherland, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, among others. The list of participants here.

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