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The Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conference, or Bilderberg Club is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media and politics.
   The elite group meets annually at luxury hotels or resorts throughout the world — normally in Europe — and once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands. The 2007 conference took place from May 31 to June 3 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. The 2008 conference will take place from June 5 to June 8 in Chantilly, Virginia, United States
   Retinger approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who agreed to promote the idea, together with Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland, and the head of Unilever at that time, the Dutchman Paul Rijkens. The guest list was to be drawn up by inviting two attendees from each nation, one each to represent conservative and liberal (both terms used in the American sense) points of view.
   Dutch economist Ernst van der Beugel took over as permanent secretary in 1960, upon the death of Retinger. Prince Bernhard continued to serve as the meeting's chairman until 1976, the year of his involvement in the Lockheed affair. There was no conference that year, but meetings resumed in 1977 under Alec Douglas-Home, the former British Prime Minister. He was followed in turn by Walter Scheel, ex-President of West Germany, Eric Roll, former head of SG Warburg and Lord Carrington, former Secretary-General of NATO.

Attendees

Attendees of Bilderberg include central bankers, defense experts, mass media press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, royalty, international financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America.
Some of the Western world's leading financiers and foreign policy strategists attend Bilderberg. Donald Rumsfeld is an active Bilderberger, as is Peter Sutherland from Ireland, a former European Union commissioner and chairman of Goldman Sachs and of British Petroleum. Rumsfeld and Sutherland served together in 2000 on the board of the Swedish/Swiss engineering company ABB. Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and former World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz is also a member. The group's current chairman is Etienne Davignon, the Belgian businessman and politician.

Speculation

Critics say the Bilderberg Group promotes the careers of politicians whose views are representative of the interests of multinational corporations, at the expense of democracy. Journalists who have been invited to attend the Bilderberg Conference as observers have discounted these claims, calling the conference "not much different from a seminar or a conference organized by an upscale NGO" with "nothing different except for the influence of the participants."
The group's secrecy and its connections to power elites has raised concerns for many who believe that the group is part of a conspiracy to create a New World Order. Radio host Alex Jones, a well known conspiracy theorist, promotes the claim that the group intends to dissolve the sovereignty of the United States and other countries into a supra-national structure similar to the European Union. Madrid-based author Daniel Estulin, writing in the conspiracy theory magazine Nexus, claims that the long-term purpose of Bilderberg is to "Build a One-World Empire". He states the group "is not the end but the means to a future One World Government".
Reporter Jonathan Duffy, writing in BBC News Online Magazine states "In the void created by such aloofness, an extraordinary conspiracy theory has grown up around the group that alleges the fate of the world is largely decided by Bilderberg." Denis Healey, a Bilderberg founder and former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, decries such theories. He was quoted by BBC News as saying "There's absolutely nothing in it. We never sought to reach a consensus on the big issues at Bilderberg. It's simply a place for discussion."

1984 (May 11-13) at the Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden in Saltsjöbaden, Sweden

1985 (May 10-12) at the Doral Arrowwood Hotel in Rye Brook, New York, United States

1986 (April 25-27) at the Gleneagles Hotel in Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Scotland

1987 (April 24-26) at the Villa d'Este in Cernobbio, Italy

1988 (June 3-5) at the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol in Telfs-Buchen, Austria

1989 (May 12-14) at the Gran Hotel de La Toja in Isla de La Toja, Spain

1990 (May 11-13) at the Harrison Conference Center in Glen Cove, New York, United States

1991 (June 6-9) at the Steigenberger Badischer Hof Hotel, Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe in Bühl (Baden) in Baden-Baden, Germany

1992 (May 21-24) at the Royal Club Evian Hotel, Ermitage Hotel in Évian-les-Bains, France

1993 (April 22-25) at the Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece

1994 (June 2-5) at the Kalastajatorppa Hotel in Helsinki, Finland

1995 (June 8-11) at the Palace Hotel in Bürgenstock, Nidwalden, Switzerland

1996 (May 30-June 2) at the CIBC Leadership Centre aka The Kingbridge Centre in King City, Canada

1997 (June 12-15) at the Pine Isle resort in Lake Lanier, Georgia, United States

1998 (May 14-17) at the Turnberry Hotel in Turnberry, Scotland

1999 (June 3-6) at the Caesar Park Hotel Penha Longa in Sintra, Portugal

2000 (June 1-4) at the Chateau Du Lac Hotel in Genval, Brussels, Belgium

2001 (May 24-27) at the Hotel Stenungsbaden in Stenungsund, Sweden

2002 (May 30-June 2) at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia, United States

2003 (May 15-18) at the Trianon Palace Hotel in Versailles, France

2004 (June 3-6) at the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromees in Stresa, Italy

2005 (May 5-8) at the Dorint Sofitel Seehotel Überfahrt in Rottach-Egern, Germany

2006 (June 8-11) at the Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada See .

2007 (May 31 - June 3) at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Further Information

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