Discussing the demographic challenge (from l.): Ernst Baumann, Member of the BMW Board of Management, Joachim Herrmann, Chairman of the CSU Parliamentary Group in the Bavarian Parliament, and Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the BMW Board of Management

Former Minister-President of Saxony Kurt Biedenkopf, with Co-Host and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt Jürgen Chrobog

EU Commissioner Vladimir Špidla and Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the BMW Board of Management, during the discussion at the podium

Reiner Klingholz, Director of the Berlin Institute for World Population and Global Development, and Arij Lans Bovenberg, Scientific Director of the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement at Tilburg University

Responding to questions from the audience: Co-Host and President of the ifo Institute Hans-Werner Sinn and EU Commissioner Vladimir Špidla

The opening panel (from l.): EU Commissioner Vladimir Špidla, Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the BMW Board of Management, moderator Georges de Ménil, and Siemens CEO Klaus Kleinfeld

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