POLITICS
SALZBURG TRILOGUE CONFERENCE KICKED OFF
Baku, August 20 (AZERTAC). A three-day Salzburg Trilogue Conference, which is being hosted by the Austrian Foreign Ministry and the Bertelsmann Foundation has today started.
The Salzburg Trilogue is an annual international dialogue forum for representatives from the political, business and cultural sectors, focusing on ways to confront the socio-political challenges being faced by Europe and the international community.
One of the central themes of this year`s Conference is “Building Blocks for Ethical Market Economies in the 21st century - Perspectives on qualitative growth from Europe, the Black Sea Region and Beyond”.
The 2010 Salzburg Trilogue will explore a new economic order that is no longer based on long-term growth, but on increasing economic and social participation and reducing the environmental footprint. This requires recognizing the ethical limits to growth, redefining ideas of progress and prosperity and, according to many experts, placing a greater focus on non-material sources of wellbeing.
The Azerbaijani minister of foreign affairs Elmar Mammadyarov, who is in Salzburg to attend the conference, is expected to address the event.