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the official application to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television all it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device if you could watch ati anytime anywhere. people don't understand what the european union is they don't understand how it's governed they don't know who the people who are running it but they know that they were chosen by the people and so. when they see the results that less than perfect they say who do we blame. they don't know who to blame because

they don't know who these people are. when i started out as a young environmental activist i had no idea that i should end up as a watchdog in the brussels machinery. but i was stunned to discover how fragile the political decision making process is and to realize how easily it can be manipulated. there's a dark force behind this machinery an entire industry operating in the shadow often in secrecy and very confidential. it is a. part of this industry is to lobby industry.

everything. to get. it. not. in twenty years now i've been fighting to uncover. who are these people who are pulling the strings of the decisions. and how do they operate. and how reading to the news politically. i'd like to speak to a fighter planes. i thought that well listen i'd like to. to leave

a message for for tomorrow i just wanted to confirm the meeting. that we have fixed . my name is mr kenny's best calculates kidney r. and s. . from the from the european services forum e.s.f. this and we have a meeting tomorrow but i didn't get time today to to go to those i want to that is it ok. thank you very much. brussels is a small city it's a kind of provinces but that's on this earth. when

you know a bit further about it's brussels is really the place. this is where the business is taking place this is where legislation is dealt i think there with the figure is around eighty percent of all ages stations which are. touching direct life of european citizens has actually been initiated here thus. if you look at plus you might be epicenter of political power in europe you see the european commission on the one side next to the council of the e.u. . and all around that's where you find lobby officers most of them belonging to big multinational corporations you find them also in all of the side streets all over to the european parliament and beyond. to finance a good looking out for the large corporations who find industry lobby groups and

their. lobby operations being in orchestrated from offices in that area. two thousand five hundred lobby structures are based in brussels fifteen thousand lobbyists the second biggest blobby industry in the world only washington d.c. is bigger. so that european union let's listen this is complicated it goes through a lot of stages it always starts with the european commission they take. new initiatives for the for legislation for policies and then it goes to the institutions the parliaments the council of ministers. and from the moments that the european commission takes his very first steps in developing new illustration all new policies industry wants to be there to influence its.

ministrations and so when they want to have the possibility to go. for the private sector where i would decide myself. what i went to i thought that that's more. something for me.

and then i discovered. business around the open situation. to be lobbyists. you know we. everybody believe the bad. the will make the institutions and institutions in the european union is about the commission the council of ministers and the european parliament but there is also. another world

behind that which is how to influence the institutions to make a text to give a good idea to. propose amendments to trying to fine tune the text depending on the interest of the people we are to push more. blubbing is it was originally envisioned is a good thing no lawmaker can be an expert in all the fields that he or she has to deal with and so they rely on other people giving them advice. but lobbying went from their field of expertise into what is more properly called hired guns so you now have people who may not be an expert in anything they're dealing with but they're paid for by clients who want them to

pursue specific. objectives what makes them so effective is many of these hired guns will be what what we call revolving door abusers and these will be people who were in governments then come out of government and are hired by the very same people that had business pending before them when they were in government and the mid ninety's we had come across so many examples of ill policies that were basically captured by industry and industry lobbying we felt it was really a fundamental problem here the influence of industries is excessive and we decided to set up a group to document examples and to start developing a strategy to rollback this excessive influence and that's how it started this.

one day in the summer of one thousand nine hundred eighty. the office. and it came from the south of france. from the local environmental group. this group was fighting against a motorway that was planned to go through a valley in the area to live in the valley of asp a clutch of can very important to the area very beautiful area. the group asked if we knew more about the role of the european union and and specifically the european commission in this motorway projects. so we started looking into this we discovered that this motorway project was part of something called the trans european networks. the transfer p and that works was the biggest infrastructure projects in history with the estimated budget of four

hundred billion. euros. friends from sweden came up with another of the tales there was an influential lobby group behind this and they asked us you know about the iraqi the european round table of industrialists. i know. i started digging for more information about the iraqi. i went to our archive and i didn't find anything. i started diving into the alien world of the business press newspapers like the financial times the economist german business newspapers and we found a reference to a new report that had been published shortly before called reshaping europe. but a rather interesting and we ordered this report at the european the round table at quarters. i wrote on the request mentioning as the purpose of research.

i did not believe i would get anything but a few days later a big brown envelope arrived in my letter box. please booklets are inside missing links missing networks and receiving your. i take the first two publications going through them something strange about them somehow they look so familiar. euro tunnel. scanning. peyronie's corridor. i go to the archive. of. the t. and projects by the commission. i go through the papers and compare them back and forth. what a striking similarity. the projects are almost identical. commission seems to have

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now i'm really curious reshipping europe. meeting in dublin has mentioned forty five c.e.o.'s from multinational companies representing billions of euros of turnover. companies like fiat's farce british petroleum. nestlé siemens shell unit lever and many others all of them supporting what is in this

book. the all source free c.e.o.'s. showroom or no girl in a hummer and this attacker. 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 lunesta so 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 so stunning was that these two three c.e.o.'s boards would sit down and actually write. a report that was a detail set of recommendations for how to change the to the face of europe. europe and so. i finished my job in the commission in april nineteenth one thousand . and ninety decided that maybe suppressed place is actually where the money is so i went to europe in banking federation. and i started to move to below beast. which.

means to be i have worked a. long time nine years in the open banking for duration and i started also to discuss. an additional work to europe which was. international trade. commission. that will eat. anything. thank you. but you know our industries. 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 my job. to. educate a few very good. commitment. i mean my job i describe it ask. networker 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 will 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 december one thousand nine hundred three the n.-g. o. 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 heat and its influence that time there were no academic studies to show anything about the power of these large multinational companies on the new policies

. we decided that this was the perfect opportunity to call for attention on the role of the year to. say. well we brainstorm 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. and 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 it didn't seem to be a good idea at all indeed finally some reason but we had an office luggage so i took everybody my people out to lunch and left and then. 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 is priceless we faxed the press release to the international media. that we expected that's the occupation of this very shadowy able to very powerful business lobby group which 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 and for the rest it was silence. 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 all very neatly organized archive everything sort it's. so we decided to move to would be fast and copy as much as possible. in those documents where letters from the year two and two months 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.

when we tracked back the history of your team we found that the start in the early days. 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. the commissioner for industry the insufficient crown of the commission. the economy called. the russian rich existed reservation with the fetish is of interest out there i would say to know for sure. but not at the level of the. sponsor for individual business and i felt that through

a missing us and so we decided to set up. a group of industrious rich to be guaranteed yachtie so as to have the capacity to listen to the c.e.o.'s. the would be and yelling at school run 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 were in charge of the european government.

and then when they need. a visionary president of the commission by the role they find dillo is thinking in entirely the same terms 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 is it only is. understood as a bit of a dirty word but is just networking just contact between human beings. 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 are moving around in brussels talking about. the crazed companies are global days and therefore the american companies the chinese companies the indian companies you taiwanese companies are actually my my allies we're working together for the same which is to open up the market. in one thousand nine hundred three was the year when the european union was born. in sold us a political project. of these letters that we had found in december point is in a totally different direction. again a master plan behind it's. like with a t.

and projects. written by the your team. the year t. and the european commission were meeting on a regular basis. in. turn was amazingly jovial and informal. all that went on in complete secrecy. and the european commission work hand in hand. and nine hundred eighty four missing links was published and. immediately after the european commission set up a working group with the unexpectedness talked to them generally in one thousand nine hundred five this is decker c.e.o. philips presents his europe one nine hundred ninety and his action plan for the single market. ten days later chuckle or new president of the european commission

gives a speech about the single market in the european parliament which sounds like the echo of decker speech is done to me in india. in june one thousand nine hundred five from your cofield vice president of the commission publishes the famous single market white paper a copy paste of the ticker plan. wealthy british style. that's not on its credit. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cons

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