Pictures of the 2005 conference

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Pictures of the 2005 conference held in Vienna, Austria, 3 - 6 June

Derek Hill, Chair of the Commission, welcoming guests and participants to the opening of the 52^nd Annual Conference in Vienna.

MA René Schmidpeter, Senior Adviser, deputising for Minister Mrs Ursula Haubner, Federal Ministry of Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection, making a speech of welcome on behalf of the Government of Austria during the conference opening session.

Günter Danhel, Director, Institute for Marriage and Family (IEF), Vienna, welcoming the Commission and its conference. The Institute had taken responsibility for much of the local preparations for the conference.

Conference participants. More than one hundred attended and thirty countries were represented.

Participants benefited from simultaneous translation – English, French, German – during plenary sessions.

Professor Wolfgang Lutz, Director of the Vienna Institute of Demography, presented the conference’s first keynote paper. His subject was ‘Families, Society’s human resource’.

Hill, Schmidpeter and Danhel examining visual material presented by Professor Lutz.

Derek Hill responding to the welcoming speech made on the behalf of the municipality of Vienna when conference participants visited the Rathaus.

Conference participants enjoying the generous hospitality of the Vienna municipality whilst in the Rathaus.