The prestigious Ripon Educational Fund held its annual
Trans-Atlantic Conference between November 7-12, 2004, in Budapest, Hungary.
The congressional delegation lead by twelve Members of Congress and accompanied by former Members and Senior Staff from the Senate and the House, as well as by government officials and a large number of private sector businessman participated in a rigorous program of panel discussions and debates of major political and economic issues affecting U.S. – Hungarian and US - European relations.
Katalin Szili, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly and senior members of the Hungarian Government, Ferenc Somogyi, Minister for Foreign Affairs, János Kóka, Minister of Economy and Transport, Etele Baráth Minister for European Affairs as well as the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szilveszter Vizi E. addressed the audience of the conference held at different historic venues in the capital city of Hungary. The 22nd annual TransAtlantic Conference focused on other specific issues as well, such as international law enforcement and health care.
Ferenc
Somogyi, Minister for Foerign Affairs addressing the delegation in the
Parliament building with Congressman John Linder, Representative Pál
Vastagh, Representative Zsolt Németh and Prof. Attila Ágh.
Ambassador András Simonyi speaking on the Panel "US Presidential
Election: Implications for US and European Relations" with the Honorable
Tillie K. Fowler, The Honorable Bill Brewster, the Honorable Henson
Moore
and Prof. Tamás Magyarics
Panel session with Congressmen Frank D. Lucas,
Joseph
Knollenberg and David Hobson at the Budapest City Hall
Session on Health Care Reforms held in the Assembly Hall of the
Hungarian Academy of the Sciences with the participation of Dr. Zsuzsanna
Jakac, Secretary of State, Ministry of Health, Congressmen David Hobson, Ed
Whitfield and Amgen Vice President Jonathan Spear and Guidant
Corporation
Vice President Michael Gropp
Mr. János Kóka, Minister of Economy and
Transport addresses the
delegation at the Hungarian State Opera House
Reception of the Ripon Educational Fund at the Vajdahunyad Vára.
