This conference was organised at the Assemblee Nationale in cooperation with the Strategic Dialogue Center of the Netanya Academic College that is chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel and Prince Hassan Bin Tallal of Jordan.
The aim was to identify the misconceptions and misunderstandings as w
ell as the convergences and similarities between Europe and the Middle East in order to move towards a future of understanding and dialogue.
Conference speakers included: Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel, Ana Palacio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Edith Cresson, former Prime Minister of France, Ziyad Abu Zayyad, now Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Jean Francois Cope, Minister Delegate for the Interior Ministry, French Government Spokesman and intellectuals such as Alexandre Adler and Yirmiyahu Yovel.