The symposium was opened with a session moderated by Gheorghe David MP, Secretary of the Senate.  The Rt. Rev. Ciprian Câmpineanul, Patriarchal Vicar Bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church, opened the session with prayer.  The symposium was greeted by Teodor Baconschi, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Peeter Võsu, President of ECPM; HE, Mgr. Francisco Javier Lozano, Apostolic Nuncio to Romania and Moldova; Dr. Theol. Adrian Lemeni, Secretary of State for Religious Denominations; Mrs Prof. Ecaterina Andronescu MP; Leo van Doesburg; Prof. Cristian Sorin Dumitrescu, President of the Ecumenical Prayer Group.

The first plenary session was moderated by Mircea Lubanovici MP. Because Roger Kiska from Slovakia had fallen ill, his speech was delivered by David Fieldsend. The speech discussed the tactics used by certain lobby organisations to try to impose secular liberal ideas on Central en Eastern European societies and how these tactics can be countered. The speech included examples such as the Lautsi v Italy case at the European Court of Human Rights and the McCafferty Report in the Council of Europe. After this followed a speech by Dr. Ben Oni Ardelean, universitary lecturer at the Baptist Theological Institute in Bucharest, which dealed with the developments of the perception of the notion of freedom of conscience throughout history with a special focus on the age of Enlightenment. Nelu Burcae, President of the National Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty discussed the relation between conscious and freedom. The first session was concluded by a speech by Petru Andea MP, proffessor at the Politechnic University of Timisoara and member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists.

After the coffee break the second plenary session was moderated by Pavel Horj MP. Mrs Andrea Williams of Christian Concern for our Nation (UK) discussed how freedom of religion and conscious has been infringed on by the state in recent years for example by means of legislation regarding non-discrimination and hate-speech. Williams' examples of cases in the UK, served as a clear warning of what to expect in other countries in the near future. This was followed by Mrs Maria Dunca Moisin of the Provita Association, an orthodox pro-life organisation in Romania, who discussed freedom of conscience as related to medical ethics. Ms Ekaterina Smyslova, Vice-President of the Christian Public Movement 'Graceful Russia', discussed the development of the freedoms of religion and conscience in the last few decades in Russia and how Christians have responded to these developments. This second session was concluded by Valeriu Saitan MP, after which the attendents went on a guided tour of the Palace of Parliament before going to lunch.

In the afternoon there were several workshops which allowed for more interactive discussion. One workshop concerned the freedom of conscience with speakers such as Dorel Covaci MP, Andrea Williams (CCFON, UK) and Jonathan van Tongeren (ECPYN), the second concerned the freedom of faith and the role of the Church and was moderated by Catalin Buciumeanu and the third was about the 'European Values' project of the European Christian Political Foundation (ECPF) and was lead by Johannes de Jong and Sander Luitwieler.

After a coffee break a plenary session lead by David, Van Doesburg and Andea served to summarize the conclusions of the earlier sessions, before the symposium was finally concluded with a dinner.