2025 Bilderberg Conference
| 2025 Bilderberg Conference 71st Bilderberg Meeting | |
|---|---|
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| Host country | Sweden |
| Date | June 12–15, 2025 |
| Cities | Stockholm |
| Venues | Grand Hôtel |
| Participants | c. 121 from 23 countries |
| Follows | 2024 Bilderberg Conference |
| Precedes | 2026 Bilderberg Conference |
| Website | bilderbergmeetings |
The 2025 Bilderberg Conference was held between June 12–June 15, 2025 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, Sweden.[1][2] The 2025 meeting was the 71st edition of the event. A Bilderberg Group press release listed 121 participants from 23 countries.[3]
Established in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Bilderberg conferences (or meetings) are an annual private gathering of the European and North American political and business elite. Events are attended by between 120 and 150 people each year invited by the Bilderberg Group's steering committee; including prominent politicians, CEOs, national security experts, academics and journalists.[4][5][6]
Bilderberg conferences operate under the Chatham House Rule, meaning that participants are sworn to secrecy and cannot disclose the identity or affiliation of any particular speaker.[4] As a result, media are not invited and delegates rarely speak about what was discussed.[1]
Permits for two public demonstrations against the meeting were requested, one of which, a march from the Norrmalm Square to the Grand Hôtel, was planned for June 14.[7]
Agenda
[edit]The key topics for discussion were announced on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting.[2] These topics included:
- Transatlantic Relationship
- Ukraine
- US Economy
- Europe
- Middle East
- Authoritarian Axis
- Defence Innovation and Resilience
- AI, Deterrence and National Security
- Proliferation
- Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals
- Depopulation and Migration
Participants
[edit]A list of 121 participants was published on the Bilderberg website.[3] This list may not be complete, as a source connected to the Bilderberg group told The Daily Telegraph in 2013 that some attendees do not have their names publicized.[8] Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson attended the meeting despite his name not appearing on the published participant list.[1][9]
Austria
[edit]Belgium
[edit]Canada
[edit]Denmark
[edit]European Union (International)
[edit]Finland
[edit]France
[edit]Germany
[edit]Greece
[edit]Ireland
[edit]Italy
[edit]NATO (International)
[edit]Netherlands
[edit]Norway
[edit]Other (International)
[edit]Poland
[edit]Portugal
[edit]Spain
[edit]Sweden
[edit]Switzerland
[edit]Turkey
[edit]Ukraine
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]United States
[edit]- Stacey Abrams
- Anne Applebaum
- James H. Baker
- Albert Bourla
- Jack Clark
- Kate Crawford
- Christopher Donahue
- Nicholas N. Eberstadt
- Jane Fraser
- Thomas L. Friedman
- Kevin Harrington
- Rebeccah Heinrichs
- Mellody Hobson
- Alex Karp
- Stephen Kotkin
- Michael Kratsios
- Henry R. Kravis
- Robert Lighthizer
- John Micklethwait
- Satya Nadella
- Samuel Paparo
- Brian Schimpf
- Eric E. Schmidt
- Jason Smith
- Mustafa Suleyman
- Lawrence Summers
- Peter Thiel
- Fareed Zakaria
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Bilderberg group meets in Sweden amid US-Europe tensions". Reuters. June 12, 2025. Retrieved June 14, 2025.
- 1 2 "71ST BILDERBERG MEETING". Bilderberg Meetings. Retrieved June 13, 2025.
- 1 2 "Participants 2025". Bilderberg Meetings. Archived from the original on April 8, 2026. Retrieved June 13, 2025.
- 1 2 Gilchrist, Karen (May 30, 2024). "A top secret meeting is kicking off in Madrid with the CEOs of Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Microsoft AI in attendance". CNBC. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
- ↑ Sommerlad, Joe (June 4, 2019). "Who are the secretive Bilderberg Group and are they really the New World Order?". The Independent. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
- ↑ Kantor, Lukas (January 1, 2024). "Bilderbergers head EU, NATO, IMF and UN". Academia.edu. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
- ↑ "Polisen rustar inför hemliga elitmötet". Expressen (in Swedish). June 9, 2025. Retrieved June 14, 2025.
- ↑ Holehouse, Matthew (June 6, 2013). "Bilderberg Group? No conspiracy, just the most influential group in the world". The Telegraph. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
- ↑ Skelton, Charlie (June 15, 2025). "China haunts Bilderberg talks as usual suspects plot world domination". the Guardian. Retrieved June 15, 2025.