now i'm really curious reshaping europe. a meeting in dublin has mentioned forty five c.e.o.'s all from multinational companies representing billions of euros

of turnover. companies like fiat's not far as british petroleum. nestlé siemens shell you know lever and many others all of them supporting what is in this book. the authors free c.e.o.'s. show or more know their girl in a hummer and vis a decker. living in the netherlands a new vista decker he was the head of philips one of the largest companies in the country. and i was the head of volvo a car producing company. and showman nor was the head of really honest or very large french automotive national. so the authors of this report were three c.e.o.'s from some of the biggest companies in europe. it was a political manifesto written by these industry leaders.

oh it was a stunning was that these thieves free c.e.o.'s woods would sit down and actually write. a report that was a detail set of recommendations for how to change the face of europe. me spirit. i finished my job in the commission in april nineteenth one thousand. and ninety cited that may be said best place is actually where the money is so i

went to the open banking federation. and i started to learn to be an open just plain. stupid. a long time nine years and you can thank you for duration and i started also to discover. an additional work to europe which was. international trade. mission. the only leader here anything worth. going your book read on. but you know the industry's. yeah i mean if you obviously need to have a lot of contacts you probably find a figure of five hundred person which i will keep in mind.

that you feel very good a commitment will i mean my job i describe it as a network as a fascinating time as an ambassador and from want to be an ambassador you have to know who you have to talk. to i can say that i would present around eighty percent of all services exporters and investors. as a turnover. let's say fifty percent of the g.d.p. of european union. i don't really believe in two. it's part of it but most of the time you will provoke chants and then it's going to be up to you to see the opportunity when the chance is there. in the summer nine hundred ninety three pm geo network i work for had its annual

meeting and the meeting was to take place in brussels. we were very impressed by what we had found out about a year to come its influence at that time there were no academic studies to show to anything about the power of these large multinational companies on new policies. we decided that this was the perfect. you need to call for attention on the role of the your team. while we brace talked about what to do and we decided to do something a little provoking. the night before we were at a press release and in the early morning we went to the ear to the office. one of us rang the doorbell and told the secretary that's here's a student looking for some documents and when the door opened we all ran up the stairs quickly and we all managed to get into the office that way.

i remember very well i was at some meeting in the morning so i think it was mid morning i came into the office and found banners hanging around the office and lots of strange faces around so i said what's what's happening will somebody please tell me what's going on and they said oh we've come to occupy your building and. possibly they wanted a confrontation possibly they wanted me to ring up the police have the police come in through the mail but that didn't seem to be a good idea at all indeed finally some reason but we had an office lunch so i took everybody my people out to lunch and left them there. we were surprised by the reaction that we got from the sea they went off into a room and talked about it apparently and decided to leave. i want we did was

using the your t's press list we faxed the press release to the international media . we expected that's the occupation of this very shadowy able to very powerful business lobby who puts really interested media. so things went a little bit differently. i think we talked to one newspaper and there was a radio program that was interested in for the rest it was silent. and that we didn't know when the t.v. stuff would come back. that's on the tables there were a position papers and reports lying around but it was also a very neatly organized archive everything sort it's. so we decided to move to it be fast and copy as much as possible. in those documents where letters from the year two and demands from the year to two european governments and to the european commission and i would responses. and it

really showed the degree of access that they had an incredible influence and it was clear from those documents. so when we tracked back the history of that your team with phones at the start in the early ninety's. from the commission the the member of the commission who was really keen was a man called a belgian called steve. he had diplomatic business background and he could see the need he said if i want to talk to european industry who do i talk to. what i've heard out of commission over industry. and insufficient contact then with the commission. the economy grow.

richer existed and with. the fetish was over the years i would say to know for sure that but not at the level of the. sponsor for individual business and i felt that through our missing. and so we decided to set up. a group of industrious which would be guaranteed. so as to have the capacity to listen through the c.e.o. . there were nearly as who ran the fia to newton a booth with a decker who rammed phillips and another that. was paid given how much who run volvo in sweden people from siemens and the big german chemical companies the french spaniards then the british. small number of people who ran.

the biggest companies in europe and were ready to talk about big policy issues with those people who would be in charge of the european government. and then when they need. a visionary president of the commission by the all they find shut down all is thinking in entirely the same tone. so why don't they get together and pool their ideas that's a breakthrough read. on the facilitate that's probably a good a good way to put me as a description not being isn't always. understood as a bit of a dirty word but is just networking just contact between human beings.

to make up. the world is very small actually as a people we have to reach out actually at the end of the day it's becoming smaller and smaller if you know the right person actually you know it's going to be about a hundred person keep us and the rest. moving around in brussels talking about. the crazed companies are global. and therefore the american companies the chinese companies the engine companies the time when these companies are actually my my allies we're working together for the same purpose which is to open up the market. one thousand nine hundred three was the year when the european union was born. to us and have been sold as

a political project. of these letters that we had from the december point is in a totally different direction. again a master plan behind it's. like with a t. and projects. written by the year tea. before the year t. and the european commission were meeting on a regular basis. in the. tone was amazingly jovial and informal. all that went on in complete secrecy. to your t. and the european commission work hand in hand. and nine hundred eighty four missing links is published and immediately after the european commission set up

a working group with the iraqi on exactly this topic i'm generally not. eight hundred eighty five this is decker c.e.o. philips presents his europe one thousand nine hundred and his action plan for the single market. ten days later chuckle or new president of the european commission speech about the single market in the european parliament which sounds like the echo of decker speech it doesn't mean you need to be. in june one thousand nine hundred five for your coal fields vice president of the commission publishes to frame a single market white paper a copy paste of the ticker plan. download the official ati application to yourself choose your language stream quality and

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