Marcelo Rebelo Sousa is expected to organize a dinner for the approximately 130 members who will meet these days in the Portuguese capital, while Prime Minister António Costa is expected to participate in part of the program.

At the meeting – the 69th since the group was founded in 1954 – a special tribute is also planned for Henry Kissinger, the former US Secretary of State who turns 100 this month and who will be present at the meeting.

At the meeting in Lisbon, exceptionally nine Portuguese will participate. In addition to the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, there is the investor Duarte Moreira, who lives in Switzerland and is the founder of Zeno Partners, the CEOs (executive directors) of Galp and EDP, respectively Filipe Silva and Miguel Stilwell de Andrade, the CEO of FeedZai, a high-tech unicorn, as well as José Luís Arnaut and Durão Barroso, who are part of the organization of the event, and Francisco Pinto Balsemão, a former member of the board of directors of the band.

Among the main international personalities who will meet in Lisbon will be the Secretary General of NATO, the President of the European Parliament and the heads of Ukrainian and European diplomacy, as well as the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and the Prime Minister of Denmark.

At the Lisbon meeting, approximately 13 topics will be discussed, ranging from transnational threats to Ukraine, Russia, China, Europe, India and US leadership, as well as artificial intelligence, energy transition , industrial and trade policy, fiscal and banking challenges. system.

The Bilderberg group, often associated with conspiracy theses, brings together around 130 political and economic leaders each year, specialists in various fields and personalities, who discuss subjects of economic, political, social and strategic life in an informal and confidential manner. Their meetings do not result in resolutions or decisions.

The origin of the group was the idea of ​​creating good relations between European states after the war, bringing together the United States and Canada. Among the new Member States, only Poland is included, through the current MEP Radoslaw Sicorsky.