and i said to keith you know i can write up out there so i can have all these different interviews but i really want to see the pieces of paper said to me well you know i have a bunch of cardboard boxes in the basement of the we haven't opened them they're from the earlier days we just we just put this material in the boxes and of course you know in the back of my mind i was very excited thinking this is it. murray a green calls came across a tell x. . it was from visit decker see your phillips. in december nine hundred eighty five he wrote to the heads of state just before the signing of the single european act but started the process of the single market. the crux of the tallackson is as follows you know we don't know what you're going to do but we want you to act you can act one way or another if you choose not to

have a single market program then you have given us no choice but perhaps take our business elsewhere. this was a clear fred the year two you were presented sixty percent of western europe's industrial output this was blackmail. why did not a single government say anything about the deck or taylor hicks. or about the other friend start followed. they were elected representatives. but we felt that this was a betrayal and we wanted to do something about it it was important for a bigger public to. no about this and we decided to publish

a book. and besides collecting data we started to make interviews. undercover interviews. finally in spring one thousand nine hundred seventy we assembled the results of our investigations and interviews into a report europe. rescheduled the launch for the big evil summit in them so that all the media would be there we were excited as. we had prepared the book launch and half an hour before the first friends started arriving . very little or no press or showed up. so unfortunately our first public events was really not noticed as part of. the job of the latest down this road block a very groove a key exercise the strengthening of the rules based system of multilateral craig.

and perhaps most important the establishment of a stronger broadly based well trained organizer. i started to work on the financial services gats negotiations that were really the time when i discovered this it's just like we'd like to do that. we've come to the end of the most far reaching trade negotiation ever. the negotiators of the hundred and seventeen governments involved i'm a cheap to make stuart race excess. with your approval therefore my gavel to your acquire of does continue. internal

market review was becoming any very important market reach market was a high g.d.p. per capita and that when the european union was going outside and negotiate as a bloc they had real power because it was a biggest exporter the biggest importer the biggest foreign investor. but so in britain the trade commission of european union was complaining that i with every time he was going to negotiate with the united states in front of him we see as counterpart period every office in and gardener observes three or four years and on his back he would have c.e.o.'s of big bangs a big insurance company telling please do that for me please do that for us but winterland britain was turning its back to see where its report was it was actually having only some ministers saying don't do this don't do that and please do that it only but not more and he was really not very happy with you and because we discovered that there is a whole world of lobbyists in washington to tell their government what they want in

the trade association. and we thought this is the way we have to go we have to do something like that the european institutions is asking for it easy of institutions cannot only rely on the information given by the member states and the expert in the finance ministry is why they need to get the information directly from the the banks of the insurance company. so then at a point in time european commission or so in britain decided ok there is association i'm not really serious about this issue i am going to invite for dinner fourteen see you of the major services companies in europe so it's a big banks big telecom big insurance big decisions services big transport services big tourism companies when you take all the different sectors it is actually making about seventy percent of the g.d.p. in europe so he. a bunch of forty of those. and.

after dinner i said well now that you've got some some food by the commission you owe me something you have to do something for me people sometimes think that the commission comes up with ideas out of the blue with and pushes them it's not a tool commission is thirsty for ideas from the cannot make acton's to help us to decide what to put food which is in the interests of europe. this is where the idea of creating a network of association and companies pushing for the trade in service is use by the private sector came up i became managing director of the open services for. relief. in general one thousand after nine we had. eleven months to prepare seattle first every cio i mean it's your conference after the creation of

this organization imagine at four and the idea was that this meeting is going to lounge submitting a ground that's so you britain had so much push for. britain never got to see how tall the entire commission had to resign because of the massive fraud several commissioners were involved in. the millennium round itself took a completely unexpected turn. i was based in the hotel and as a conference was in the sheraton five hundred metres away and i have not been allowed to go out of the hotel because it was one protest looking to buy a light rail and it was a police officer beside him and asking can i go outside please i would like to go and do my job. i was going to assist his allowance of the siesta or. so there we

will enter into a new phase in negotiation oliver is a libra zation of service. i remember that commissioner let me as being blocked i mean yes we named her to enter his car but the car couldn't move because of those people they're just there and no policeman say please go away in five metres so that the v.i.p.'s here can do his job. many n.g.o.s say that yourself is a secret secret organisation having secret meetings you can commission all the everything is on their website i mean i am doing my job by contacting the commission and the officials responsible for my file if anybody as would like to do the same there's a phone number he's on the in the world on the website i'm just doing my job and i don't have anything specific but is a commission has some relationship with the surface because it commission is willing to get some information from the services sectors before negotiating on their behalf because this is what we're talking about trade is done by companies not by n.g.o.s. this is

the annual dinner if the french if you're a teacher is really a very big brussels organization and lots and lots of people from different countries different jobs different walks of life who do all interested in. how can you develop with the right things to do wrong and how close build a lot we've already done. the inclusive thing trying to. think things are going brussels are you feeling a part of the vacuum that exists now that you have put it there is no european probably to greece. to syntax to step into that vacuum and the order forums in which something like a debate happens inside the process bob. there are national politicians here european politicians mysterious civil servant said the dreaded you know it creaks idea. good department store of business men get their faces the universe into its

real souls that people are wondering about bristles it's a bit like it really everybody will still want to not well when i will to be auditing moderate my job is to keep in contact think tanks are not themselves lobbyists but they are part of the landscape of lobbying because companies use them to transmit their demands from their their perspectives and all of these are heavily dependent on industry funding. several people are sponsoring it microsoft is one of the american business presently knew it microsoft is one of them why not . have had think tanks in brussels that were directly from the by the oil industry and that we're working to sold out about whether it or such a thing as climate change and whether it's important for governments to act is to reduce c o two emissions. you can set up research

institutes to provide you with. research that kind of strengthens your position. you can launch a mess if p.r. campaigns and the media with your information. what also happens is setting up fake n.g.o.s as happened in the big battle about the software patents law suddenly there were these advertisements from an enduro that's said it was representing small and medium sized companies puts the financial backers of this n.g. over microsoft and it's the people. in the end it's all about money. it's one person one vote but in the brussels basis it's one euro one fault the problem is we don't know about the money behind politics we don't know how much is being spent on the and by whom and on which issues. we need to put this on the

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so one of my first testimonies before the european commission was a very very awakening experience. i had one commissioner interrupt me and say well we understand you had a problem in the united states with lobbying activities but he went on to say but you know this is brussels and this is europe we don't have that kind of activity going on here which just kind of floored me that anyone could be so naive. more that perhaps the fact of answer was ok i'll concede that a lot of these k. street lobbyists and the professional lobbyists here in the united states may be corrupt however i know every major k.

street lobby shop also has a lobby shop in brussels and so we're in your bed europe don't you want to know if you think that we are so corruptible and so corrupting don't you want to know who we are and who's paying for us and what it is we're trying to get you to do for us. we have to decide to regulate lobbying for a long time in two thousand and four the new commission came in and for the first time ten eastern european countries were part of. the first burst of commission started its in autumn two thousand and four we wrote an open letter to the commission president jose manuel barroso signed by over fifty n.g.o.s.

i would just like to say thank you. that's a very sincere thank you for the confidence which you just voiced and invested in me and i'd like to say to you that i understand this is a vote of confidence as also implying huge responsibility on my part and we are going to work hard give our all to serve europe to serve the institutions of the european union and to serve all our coast citizens of europe that. the response was a very short formal letter saying we received your letter sent you very interesting . but no substantial response.

so we sent the same letter to all the presidents of the commission. and suddenly towards the end of february we were contacted by the office of the same color as commissioner from estonia responsible for administration inviting us to come over. so we went to mr collis his office which was somewhere in the top of the building. we didn't know what we had to expect from this meeting we had never been approached by a commission so in that sense it was very exciting we welcomed by mr cullison himself and one of his cabinet members. in this and mr colors had a brochure and that made us smile it was a lovely plan of god to brussels which was a tongue in cheek but a very critical look at industry lobbying in the you written by eric and me in our colleagues. when i started the. commission and i really sold out several says so

weak suspicion surrounding said this isn't making in european union. of course i. say establish for myself a purpose to reduce the suspicions. told to step he was going to launch this european transparency initiative and we immediately saw that these who serve because political opportunity. as an outsider was business he also had a clear sense for how the. process. to get on with the lobby industry. european commission is going to its that's activities of interest representatives are legitimate and often a valuable input into decision making process have to happen in a transparent manner that the commission can see that is that these important to

know. what the interests they represent and against what financial background. of say efforts to do creates a speech or to make the speech. of course outlined main principles of transparency initiative which should be done and it was of course met . with. a lot of controversial reactions and if you know without financial transparency we'll never find out who really is behind the campaign. a little bit more control on ourselves wouldn't harm our reputation with our voters. transparency must not for closer contact with real life with interest groups or groups without interest thank you commissioner callous and certainly understand this. when the european union was considering the european transparency initiative they were looking for some advice as to how some of these

achievements happened in the us and as a result it was brought out about half a dozen different times to testify before the year. being commissioner in the european parliament to tell the truth i was very impressed with the same color as when i first started working with him in the european commission some callers helped really are sure the whole significance of needing transparency. he was very adamant at first about setting up a mandatory disclosure system having full transparency but halfway through the process some colors came up against the political reality and. after free years of struggle and political fight and exhausted commissioner call us and set the stage to finally launch a lobby register a good. woman known or asked and. so quite that remarkable moment today. three years ago i

proposed to set up a register of lobbyists in order to enhance transparency and and legitimacy and i want you decision making process and. openness from today. so we proposed voluntary solution because i was i am convinced that cease would shoot for all expect basins and i think that today's is a very important moment of cultural change. concerning zeese. aspect of this is in making in european institutions. some colors introduced a voluntary system against all recommendations by n.g.o.s and experts this was the best he could get. we have tried for over two years now to find

out who had blocked colossus' or original intention. where it other commissioners the commission secretary and the lobbyist themselves. one month after the financial crisis started in october two thousand and eight. appointed the independent high level group on from actual supervision. to group was to work our proposals for the regulation of the financial markets and to find a way out of the financial crisis. eight so-called wise men were appointed to this group. shackle our share and i must say are on a weeding out my easing mccarty nashik culture over each to separate us from now on this and last nuclear. we looked into the independence of this independent group

and we found some s. honestly thinks. the lever she is the co-chair of a financial lobby organisation. to lehman brothers. leading to citi group leasing to goldman sachs. mccarty nuber and bunch of always are notorious deregulators. and paris for nonis works to provide financial market intelligence to big banks. free of the eight were directly linked to american banks all of which were directly involved in causing the crisis. which in addition closely into american right wing think tanks like the cato institute this was one of the closest advisors to the bush administration he was also involved in the earlier i think tanks in brussels and poland and the u.k.

. other similarities wise men there was in favor of strict regulation not a single one of them was really independence and the effect of the. is it wise man on overcoming the financial crisis was still the main thing that happened last night a lot of public money was flowing to the banks. missive. this whole affair has a horrible sense of deserve all the same financial institutions that were bailed out with taxpayers' money i know making a fortune from greece's misfortune while those same taxpayers are paying the price in deep cuts to their salaries and social services.

after twenty years of deregulation and liberalisation suddenly the european union herself was at the edge of being blown up. what is at stake is not only the european union but also democracy and the future of the values that we hold dear. ones that this what we europeans had wanted. wasn't really naive to have a european dream. in the human nature and yet not only could you always have a but cite somewhere. and we need to make sure that we keep only the good and therefore you need regulation.

when you live in a society you know half truths because otherwise people are going too fast on the motorway because people have no respect to the elss because the stronger take this basis is. this is a human nature what we have done to go and make sure that we leave together these by create images lynch thanks by creating another summit that everyone respects.

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