threat of being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing the joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into having their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based on totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion. every six months there was in the us on that and every six months that your team it's just a few days before. location and they were kept confidential the booking was made two years and. 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 our picture got confirmed by an american scholar stepping into the topic maria green cards i was interested and doing something about europe and something about the european union 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 richardson. 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. i'd come back with more questions and

sometimes tease out the answers and sometimes they 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 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 and you know in the back of my mind i was very excited thinking this is it. murray a green calls came across a tell it. was from visit decker see your phillips. in 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 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 telex. or about the other first start followed. they were elected representatives.

we felt this was a betrayal and we wanted to do something about his it was important for a bigger public to know about this and we decided to publish a book. 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 use from it and. all the media would be there we were excited as. we had prepared the book launch and half an hour before the first friend started to write. very little or no press or showed up. so unfortunately our first public events that's really not noticed as part of.

the job of the writers down this road block today and groove a key exercise the strengthening of the rules by a 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 side assist 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 great big o.c.a. should never. the negotiators of the hundred and seventeen governments and i mean she didn't. success. with your approval there my guy will be europe.

the internal market of you was becoming any very important market rich 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 with every time he was going to negotiate with the united states in front of him when we see his counterpart here you have your office and garden audiences for three or four years and on his back he has c.e.o.'s of big banks a big insurance company telling please do that for me please do that for us but winterland 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 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 these 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 information directly from the the banks of the company. you know so they're not a point in time european trade commissioner so in britain decided ok there was association i'm not really serious about this issue i am going to invite for dinner fourteen c.-u. of the major services companies in europe so it's about big banks big telecom big insurance big decision services big trance. this is 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 dinner i 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 with and pushes them it's not so a tool traditionally is thirsty for ideas from the cannot make acton's to help us to decide what to put food 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 and became managing director of the open services for. relief. in general night after nine we had. eleven months to

prepare seattle first deputy oh i missed your conference as a creation of this organization imagine at four and the idea was that this meeting is going to lounge the millenium brown 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 trailer 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 protester blocking the door by lying on the ground and it was a police officer beside him. and i am asking can i go outside please i would like

to go and do my job. i was going to assist to salons of the c. s. around so that we will enter into a new phase a negotiation for lever is a libra zation of the service. i remember that commissioner let me as being blocked 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 the 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 else 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 if the 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. the she's 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 on what we've already done. the inclusive thing to try to. think tanks in brussels are feeling a part of the vacuum that exists so that you are able to there is no european probably to greece. to syntax to step into that vacuum and be on the forums in which something like a debate happens inside the brussels board. they're all national politicians here

european politician or a serious civil servant said and the dreaded you know it creates a good department store of business men get their faces from universities will still see people wondering about bristol's reasons a bit like it really everybody will still want to not read it when i will to be on to 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 used them to transmit their demands from their their perspectives and it's all of these are heavily dependent on the industry from the. simple people are sponsoring it microsoft is one of the american business person to do it microsoft is one of them why not. have had think tanks in the process that were directly from the party or oil industry and that were working to. sold 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 you with. research that's kind of strengthens your position. you can launch a mess if 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 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 as you hope for microsoft and as a people. in the end it's all about money in the crossing it's one person one vote but in the brussels basis it's one euro one faults the problem it's . we don't know about the money behind politics we don't know how much is being

spent on by whom and on which issues. we need to put this on the democrats control it has to be made visible what's the role is of lobbying in your decision making what is to role of a large company like. wealthy

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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 all 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 burst of commission started 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 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 . 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 officer of the same color as commissioner from estonia responsible for administration inviting us to come over. so we went to mr collis 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 mystical as 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 every comedian or our colleagues. when i started does race and 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 fruits are big political. as an outside business. sense for how do you want to. be in the street. european commission is going to. this of interest representatives are legitimate valuable input into a decision making process have to happen in a transparent manner that the commission can see that's 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 will be done. 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 that. transparency must not for closer contact with real life with interest groups or groups without interest thank you commissioner callous and certainly understand. the european union was considering the european transparency initiative they were looking for some advice is to have. some of these achievements happened in the u.s.

and as a result it was brought out about half a dozen different times to testify before the european commission and the european parliament to tell the truth i was very impressed with the sim 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 an exhausted commission i call us and set the stage to finally launch a lobby register a good. wood mill. or off and on. so i am quite that unlockable moment today. three years ago i

proposed to set up the register of lobbyists in all of the enhanced unspent of sand and legitimacy i don't say i'm evil decision making process and that is the openness from today. so we proposed. 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 zeese. aspect of this season making in european institutions. some call us 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 other commissioners

the commission secretary and the lobbyist themselves. a month after the financial crisis started in october two thousand and eight. appointed that 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 using mccarty nashik culture over each to separate us from now on this and last nuba. we looked into the end attendance of this independent group and we found some less honest

things. the legacy is the co-chair of a financial lobby organisation. linked to lehman brothers. greeting to citi group leasing to goldman sachs. mccarty nuber and bunch of always are notorious deregulators. and paris fernandes 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 this was one of the closest advisors to the bush administration he was also involved in the earlier earthing times in brussels and poland and the u.k. . all the single of these wise men was in favor of strict regulation

not a single one of them was really independence and the effect of these eight wise men on overcoming the financial crisis was zero the main thing that happened was that 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 well 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. wasn't really naive to have a european dream. in the human nature and yet not only could you always have it but cite some. and we need to make sure that we keep only the good and therefore you need regulation. when you live in

a society you have proof because otherwise people are going too fast on the motorway because people in the respected elss because the stronger take this case this is this is human nature what we have done to go and make sure that we live together these by creating legislation in place by creating an authority that everyone respect.

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