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The second Forum, with about 200 attendees, took place in June 2011, and focused on energy security and the role of NATO. The third Forum, held in late May and early June, 2012, explored whether the transatlantic model of democracy can be applied to other parts of the world as the centers of wealth shift eastward and southward. The fourth WGF, for the first time co-organized by the Polish
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