Symposium:
"Promoting Active Welfare States: A Transatlantic Dialogue"

Featuring a public lecture by

Frank Vandenbroucke
Belgian Minister of Employment and Pensions
"Promoting Active Welfare States in the European Union"

With respondents:
David Riemer, Wisconsin State Budget Director
Joel Rogers, Director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy
Tom Kaplan, Associate Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty

The symposium will be followed by a reception

Thursday, 30 October 2003
3:30 p.m.
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive

Sponsored by The European Union Center ,
the Governance Project of the Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE),
the La Follette School of Public Affairs,
the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS),
and the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)

This event is free and open to the public

Frank Vandenbroucke will also be a featured speaker at the EUC conference on "New Approaches to Governance
in EU Social and Employment Policy:
Open Coordination and the Future of Social Europe,"
31 October 2003, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall

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Dr. Vandenbroucke, who was previously Belgian Foreign Minister and Minister for Social Affairs, holds a doctorate from Oxford University in Philosophy and Economics. Dr. Vandenbroucke has played a leading role in recent European social policy making, especially during the Belgian Presidency of the European Union in 2001, when he helped to launch the new "open coordination" processes for social inclusion and pension reform. Dr. Vandenbroucke is the author of Social Justice and Individual Ethics in an Open Society: Equality, Responsibility and Incentives (Springer, 2001), as well as numerous articles, including "Sustainable Social Justice and ‘Open Coordination’ in Europe", in Gøsta Esping-Andersen et al., Why We Need a New Welfare State (Oxford University Press, 2002).