FMRS Bucharest

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Schedule

FMRS Bucharest

14:00 – 14:20	Registration
14:20 – 14:30	Opening and welcome Ovidiu Folcuț (Rector, Romanian – American University, Bucharest)
14:30 – 16:00	Panel 1 – What values for Europe? Worrying trends, old challenges and new opportunities Chair: Radu Şimandan (Republican Institute & Politehnica University, Bucharest) Keynote: Krassen Stanchev (Institute for Market Economics, Sofia): “The Erosion of the Trust in Free Trade: EU FTAs and other Challenges” Panelists: Terpe Horia Paul (Executive Director of the Centre for Institutional Analysis and Development – Eleutheria) Cris Lingle (Visiting Professor of Economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala) Daniel Kaddik (Director of the Southeast Europe office of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom) Octavian Jora (Founder & Editor-in-chief, The Market for Ideas)
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00	Panel 2 – Free to Enterprise. Unleashing creative energies in the Romanian business environment Chair: Iuliu Marin Ivanescu (Vice-dean) Keynote: Federico Fernández (President of Fundación Internacional Bases, Argentina and Senior Fellow with the Austrian Economics Center) Panelists: Silviu Hotăran (Entrepreneur) Anders Ydstedt (Advisor at Scantech Strategy Advisors and Chairman of Svensk Tidskrift) Adrian Stratulat (Executive Director – Blockchain Romania Association) Octavian Bădescu (Entrepreneur – Founder of RE/MAX Freedom Group)
18:00	Closing remarks