21/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - Austrian economics and labour minister Martin Bartenstein will be attending the Munich Economic Summit on 4 and 5 May in Germany on behalf of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU. Other participants include EU Industry Commissioner Gunter Verheugen, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy, German economics and technology minister Michael Glos, Latvia's economics minister Arturs Karins, Minister-President of Baden-Wurttenberg, Gunther Ottinger, and the CEOs of companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers, France Telecom and British Telecom International, and managers of US and Indian companies, explains a press release. The Summit is being organised by BMW's Herbert Quandt Foundation and the CESifo company in Munich. (Info: http://www.munich-economic-summit.com ).