09/04/2007 11:55:21 pm
Washington DC, New York, Zürich, Bern, Rome, Paris... This week will be one of some research and writing, but also preparations for some travelling. On Friday, I will go to the US for about eleven days. Speeches and meetings.

Little time after that, I will go to Zürich to speak at the annual global maganement meeting of the Schindler Group. Then to Bern for a meeting with the Swiss Interior Minister, Pascal Couchepin.

After that, Rome is next. I will speak at an annual arrangement by the National Center for Policy Analysis and also meet with the former Italian Labour Market Minister Maurizio Sacconi.

Then, directly to Paris. I will speak at the World Economic Outlook Conference, arranged by Global Insight. The topic is European competitiveness and the need for free-market reforms.