1. Apologies and Welcome (W Bauer)
Apologies were received from: Guy Decaux MD PhD BELGIUM, Alain Soupart BELGIUM, Isabel Van Dorpe BELGIUM, Patrick Lacor BELGIUM, Karel Horky DrSc., FACP (Hon.)CZECH REPUBLIC, Colm Quigley EIRE, Christopher Davidson ENGLAND, Clare Higgens ENGLAND, Margus Lember ESTONIA, Ilkka Pörsti FINLAND, Noora Ritamäki FINLAND, Bernard Grosbois FRANCE, Nicholas Katsilambros GREECE, Sotirios Raptis GREECE, Maria Domenica Cappellini ITALY, Hanne Thurmer NORWAY, Daniela Toporan ROMANIA, Ion Bruckner ROMANIA, Dan Isacoff ROMANIA, Branko Lovic SERBIA, Radmila Zivkovic SERBIA, Dragan Lovic SERBIA, Thomas Kjellström SWEDEN, Stefan Lindgren SWEDEN, Mikael Kohler SWEDEN, Verena Briner SWITZERLAND, MarkKramer THE NETHERLANDS, Mine Durusu Tanriover TURKEY, , Serhat Unal TURKEY, J Rhidian Dowdle UK, Philip Dyer UK
Werner Bauer welcomed the following new delegates: Dror Dicker (Israel), Franck Bosch (The Netherlands), Valentin Kokorin and Andrey Spassky (Russia), Radovan Hojs (Slovenia), as well as saluted all the young internists present in the room following the first assembly of the group the previous day.