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projects free media oh god r.t. dot com. every six months there was somebody who was on that and every six months that your team it's just a few days before. location and they work up come from then travel the booking was made two years and it's. left behind was a clear message to the following you summit on the heads of governments a few days later. adopt the single market the monetary union infrastructure projects a flexible labor market deregulation downsize public services austerity measures and so on and so on the whole neo liberal agenda for them basically are picture confirmed by american scholar stepping into the topic maria green call's i was interested and doing something about europe something about the european you. i

started talking with some of the c.e.o.'s and in particular the corporate affairs managers of these firms to ask them what happened and everybody had a little piece of the story and then i met with keith richards and. keith and i would talk about different things and he would give me some ideas and i'd go and i'd talk with other individuals and then i'd come back with more questions and sometimes keith had the answers and sometimes he didn't and finally i believe it was on my seventh meeting with keith when 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 think you've 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.

green colson came across a tell it. was from visit decker see your philips. december ninety five he wrote to the heads of state just before the signing of the single european fact 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 cure for it to your. she represented 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 frets that followed. they were elected representatives. but we felt that this was a betrayal and we wanted to do something about it it's important for a bigger public to know 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 book launch for the big east

summit in them so that all the media would be there we were excited as. we had prepared the book launch and how often or before the first friend started arriving . very little or no press has showed up. so unfortunately our first public events that's really not noticed by the pope. jumped into the latest episode mockery and groove a key exercise the strength of the rule system of multilateral craig. and perhaps most simple the establishment of a stronger broadly basine well drained of all good i was very.

vi started to work on the financial services cats negotiations and that was really the time where i discovered this is really interesting and like we'd like to do that. we've come to be the most reaching. the negotiators in seventeen governments an. extraordinary success. with your approval there my gavel to europe. the internal market of you 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 a real power because it was a biggest exporter the biggest importer the biggest foreign investor. but so in britain the trade commission of the european union was complaining that i was every

time he was going to negotiate with the united states in front of him when we see his counterpart here you have your recent gardener and sister think of stories and on his back he would have c.e.o.'s of big banks a big insurance company telling please do that for me please do that for us but when charlie and britain was turning his back to see where this report was it was actually having only some minister 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 you know. 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 you can institution is asking for it easy you can see to sion 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 bank that the insurance company. you know so then at

a point in time european commission a soul in britain decided ok there was 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 about big banks big telecom big insurance big dissipations 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 we invited the bunch of forty of those. and. after the dinner he said well now that you've got some some food by the commission you only saw things you have to do something for me people sometimes think that the commission comes up with ideas out of the blue and pushes them it's not a tool traditionally is thirsty for ideas from the actons to help

us to decide what to put food. this is where the idea of creating a network of association and companies pushing for the trade in service if you buy the private sector came up and became managing director of the open services firm. in general to nine we had. eleven months to prepare seattle first. a ministerial conference after the creation of this organisation imagine at four and the idea was that this meeting is going to lounge the millenium brown that. britain had so much push for. britain never got to see how to turn commission had to resign because of the massive fraud several commissioners were. often. you have all the

millennium round itself took a completely unexpected turn. i was pacing the tail and there's a conference was in the sheraton five hundred meters away and i have not been allowed to go out of the hotel because i was one protest or blocking the door by lying around 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 c.s. around so that we will enter into a new phase a negotiation for liver is a liver is a shot of the service. i remember that commissioner let me as been blocking i mean he has been able 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 i gave 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 the website i mean i am doing my job by contacting the commission with officials responsible for my file if anybody else would like to do the same there's as their phone number is 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 sector is 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 at the friends if you're a species really a very big muscles organization and lots and lots of people from different countries different jobs different walks of life who all interested in. how can you develop with the right things to do wrong. how can i build

a lot we've already done. i mean coolest thing trying to. think things in brussels are feeling a part of the vacuum that exists at the e.u. level that there is no european public to base. syntax to step into that vacuum and they are the forums in which something like a debate happens inside the brussels bubble. there are national politicians doing european politician or a serious civil servant said the dreaded you know it cracks a good diplomat story of businessmen get their faces through universities will still see people wondering about bristles easy to read like it really everybody will still want to not read or when i will to be on the lot of my job is to keep in contact. think tanks are not themselves lobbyists but they are part of the landscape of law because companies used them to transmit their demands from their

their perspectives and hence all of these are heavily dependent on industry funding . several people are sponsoring it microsoft is one of american business is present in europe mike yourself is one of the why not. have had think tanks in brussels that were directly from the party or oil industry and that were working to sort out about sweaters or such a thing as climate change and whether it's important for governments to access to reduce c o two emissions. you can set up research institutes to provide her with. research that's kind of strengthens your position. you can launch message p.r. campaigns and flood 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 pets. suddenly

there were these advertisements from an enduro that's said it was representing small and medium sized companies but the financial backers of this n.g. over microsoft and the people. in the end it's all about money in the uk risky it's one person one fold but in the brussels baseness 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 cut this on the democrats control it has to be made visible what's the role is of lobbying in the decision making what is the role of a large company like monsanto or shell. new

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so one of my first testimonies before the european commission was a very very awakening experience. but. 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 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 maybe corrupts 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 burns a commission started its in autumn two thousand and four we wrote an open letter to the commission president. 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 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 . 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 callouses 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. had a brochure and that made us smile it was a lovely plan of god to brussels which was a tongue in cheek but very critical look at industry lobbying in the u. written by eric and me in our our colleagues. when i started. commission and i really sold out several says so weak suspicion surrounding said this isn't making in european uno. of course i. say establish

for myself a purpose to reduce the suspicions. told her step he was going to launch this european transparency initiative and we immediately sold it is for political. business. sense for. us. to get on with the industry. european commission is going to its that's activities of interests representatives . of decision making process have to happen in a transparent manner the commission can see this these important to know. what the interests they represent and against what financial background.

efforts to do creates a speech or to make the speech. of course outlined main principles of transparency initiative which should be done. with the excitement of reactions and if you know without financial transparency we'll never find out who really is behind the campaign sticked. a little bit more control on ourselves wouldn't harm our reputation with our voters that look the 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. it's happened in the u.s. and as a result i was brought out about half a dozen different times to testify before the european commission in the european

parliament to tell the truth i was very impressed with some call this when i first started working with him in the european commission sim callers helped really the whole significance of needing transparency. he was very adamant at first about setting up a mandatory disclosure system 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 colorless and to the stage to finally launch a lobby register a good. with little known or often or. so quite that remarkable moment today. three years ago i proposed to set up the register of lobbyists and in order to enhance transparency

and and legitimacy i don't say i'm evil decision making process and. openness from today. so we broke post. very solution because i was i am convinced that cease would suit for all expect basins and i think that those days there is a very important moment of cultural change. concerning these. aspect of this isn't making in european institutions. and cause introduced a voluntary system against all recommendations by n.g.o.s and the 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's other commissioners the commission secretary and the lobbyist themselves.

a month after the financial crisis started in october two thousand and eight. appointed independent high level group on financial supervision. the 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. shocked a lot and i must say. i'm alluding of my easing mccarty leszek belzer over each recipient as found on this and last nuba. we looked into the independence of this independent group and we found some less honest things. the lover she is the co-chair of

a financial lobby organization. linked to lehman brothers. greeting 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 linked to american right wing think tanks like the cato institute 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. . all the single of these wise men was in favor of strict regulation now the single one of them was really independence and the effect of these eight

wise men on overcoming the financial crisis was here are the main thing that happened last a lot of public money was flowing to the banks. is the. ah 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. was that this what we europeans had wanted. isn't really naive to have a european dream. is in the human nature and yet not only could you always have it but cite some. time we need to make sure that we keep only the good and therefore you need regulation. when you live in a society you have truth because otherwise people are going too fast on the motorway because people have no respect and elss because the stronger take this

basis is this is human nature what we have done to go and make sure that we leave together these by creating legislation in place by creating an authority that everyone respect.

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