Our annual President's Dinner, co-hosted by our President Viscount Etienne Davignon and Friends of Europe's Praesidium Member and the Swedish Presidency's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, will start with a welcome cocktail at 19.00 at the Concert Noble Hall on 9 October, 2009. The dinner, in partnership with Microsoft, GDF Suez, Vinyl 2010 and Weber Shandwick, is Brussels' landmark event, and is both intellectually stimulating as well as entertaining. It will bring together some 200 Friends of Europe Trustees along with EU Commissioners, Members of the European Parliament, Directors General of the European Commission and other top officials from the EU Institutions and European governments, ministers, business, NGO and civil society representatives, and international press. Confirmed participants at the President