Three Greeks, a banker , a professor and a president of a NGO, will participate in this year’s conference of the notorious Bilderberg Club that is organized each year bringing together the “global political, industrial, economical and media elite” so as to “strengthen the dialogue between Europe and North America,”.

The Bilderberg conference will take place in Denmark in late May and the exact location has not been announced yet. However, some reports refer that the meeting will be held in Copenhagen from May, 29 to June, 1st.

According to the same reports, the persons who will represent Greece will be the chairman of the Board of the National Bank Giorgos Zannias, the president of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy Lukas Tsoukalis and Alexandra Mitsotaki, president of Action Aid Hellas.

In the previous meeting of the Bilderberg Club, Alexis Papachelas, director of Kathimerini newspaper, Odysseas Kyriakopoulos, special envoy of Business Europe to Mediterranean affairs and former president of the Association of Greek Industries participated.

The issues to be discussed are not published, but according to international media, the crisis in Ukraine, the economic perspective of China, the Middle East and the crisis in the EU will be the main topics. According to the official website of the Club, participants are free to use any information they will receive but they are not allowed to use the name of the person who gave the information, and even the official record does not include the names of speakers.

The first meeting of the Bilderberg Club was held in 1954  at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Netherlands. Every year 120-150 celebrities, politicians, bankers , industrialists , academics and media people are gathered. The first meeting dealt with the rise of anti-Americanism in Western Europe , and the results were considered so important that the meeting decided to be held every year in a different European city, and every four years in a city in the U.S. or Canada. In 1955 and 1957 the Bilderberg Club hold a meeting twice in one year while 1976 was the only year that no conference was held.

In this year’s 62nd meeting about 140 people from 22 countries will participate. Two thirds of the participants come from Europe , and one third from North America, while one third of the participants are politicians.