say if it's in to be significant it's the tipping it begins so what follows the first an expletive laced. with guns to stay safe everyone. helicopters flying through the air day and night rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now houston miami residents of the good old usa can get in on the fun houston residents in terror called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as

a military helicopters participated in a multi-agency training thrill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught a video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank ammo on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexibly scheduled military drill could be happening in jesper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how the evil soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one thousand nine hundred four all made it a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan which is don't look like downtown miami just who are you training to kill anyways knock off the terror trainings but that's just my opinion.

people don't understand what the european union is they don't understand how it's governed they don't know who are the people who are running it but they know that they were chosen by the people and so. when they see the results are less than perfect they say who do we blame. and 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. when it comes. to. it.

not. in twenty years now i think fighting to uncover. who are these people who are pulling the strings of the e.u. decisions. and how do they operate. and how reading to the news political and. religious belief. i'd like to speak to please. not 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 side this is for all the 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. well dressed as a small city it's a kind of province's but that's on this earth. when you know a bit further about its 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 it just stations which are. touching direct life of european citizens is actually initiated here thus. if you look at plus human 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 offices 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. who finds a good lobbyist for the large corporations who find industry lobby groups and there are. lobby operations being in office traders 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. it's bigger. so are there 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 through the a situations the parliament the council of ministers. and from the moments the european commission takes his very first steps in developing new legislation on new policies industry wants to be there to influence its.

ministrations and so when they want to have the possibility to go and live. off of the private sector where i would decide myself. what i went to i thought that that small. something. and then i discovered. business around the loop institutions.

are starting. to be lobbyists. you know we. everybody believe that. the will make us institutions and institutions in the european union is about the commission the council of ministers and the european parliament but there is also. another word 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 and when you're to push more. loving 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 your policies that were basically captured by industry and industry lobbying which 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 that's how it started this. one day in the summer of one thousand nine hundred three i remember a fax came in on a fax machine in 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 they lived in the valley of asp a clutch can be 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 detail 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 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. scan link. pyrenees corridor. i go to the archive. at. the t. and projects by the commission. i go through the papers compare them back and forth. what a striking similarity. projects are almost identical. commission seems to have copy paste. proposals.

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now i'm really curious reshipping europe. 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 the farce british petroleum kirkstall nestlé siemens shell unit lever and many others all of them supporting what is in this book. the all source freeze c.e.o.'s. show or more know their girl in a hummer and this 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 a 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 this industry leaders. oh it was a stunning was that these days for a 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.

an experience that. i finished my job in the commission in april nineteenth one thousand. and ninety cited that may be suppressed place is actually where the money is so i went to the open banking federation. and i started to learn to be an opiate based. and. used to be my house worked a. long time nine years in the open banking for duration and i started also to discover. an additional work to europe which was. international trade. the illegal. anything worth. knowing your book read on here. but you know our industries. yeah i mean if

you obviously need to have a lot of contacts you probably find a figure of one hundred person which i will keep in mind. you that you. are if you're a commitment. 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. it's part of it but most of the time you will provoke chants and then he's going to be up to you to see the open. when chatting.

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 t. and its influence that time there were no academic studies to show anything about the power of these large multinational companies on the policies. we decided that this was the perfect opportunity to call for attention on the role of the unity. well we brace talked about what to do and we decided to do something a little provoking. the night before we wrote 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 meat chain 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 and have the police come in through the mail but. 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 press lists 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 it was a radio program that was interested before the rest it was silent. and we didn't know when the t.v. stuff would come back. but it'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 frost and copy as much as possible. in those

documents where letters from the year two and two months from the year two to 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 it was clear from those documents. so when we tracked back the history of that 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.

and insufficient ground then with the commission. the economy. the ration rich existed reservation with the fetish was of interest i would say unofficial. 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 or group of industrious rich or be cared vidyarthi so as to have the capacity to listen to the sea year olds. who were and yelling as who ran the fia to newton a booth with a deck or who rammed phillips and another i. 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 meet. a visionary president of the commission by the lol they find the law is thinking in entirely the same terms so why don't they get together and pool their ideas that's a breakthrough read. i'm a facilitator 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 that is just networking just contact between human beings. we're going 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 are moving around in brussels talking about. the crazed companies are global. and therefore the american companies the chinese companies the indian 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.

in 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 found in december pointed in a totally different direction in the. west or again a master plan behind it's. like with a t. and projects. written by the year team. of 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. mediately after the european commission set up a working group with the unexpected this topic generated nine 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 gives a speech about the single market in the european parliament which sounds like the echo of decker speech done to me in india. in june one thousand nine hundred five from your coal fields vice president of the commission published a famous single market white paper a copy paste of the day could land. and

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