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liberal agenda for them basically our picture got confirmed by an american scholar stepping into the topic maria greene powells i was interested in 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 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 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 about this i can have all these different interviews but i really want to see the pieces of paper he 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. came across or tell x. . it was from visit decker see your phillips. 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 to. swear.

this was a clear fred the year to represent 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 dots we started to make interviews. undercover interviews. and finally in spring one thousand nine hundred seventy we

assembled the results of our investigations and interviews into a report europe. was scheduled to launch for the big ego 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 showed up. so unfortunately our first public events was really not noticed as part of. the drop into the latest episode. or groove a key exercise the strength of the rules based system of multilateral crate. and perhaps most simple scabrous most of us. stronger broadly.

brain organizer. i 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 the end of the most reaching negotiation at. the negotiators and seventeen governments and richie vtam extraordinary success. with your approval therefore my gavel to europe why rodas can no. internal market it. 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 your opinion 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 office and garden system of stories 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 when charlie and britain was turning his back to see where his report was he 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. that. 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 institution cannot only rely on the information given by the member states and the expert in the finance ministry by the need to get information directly from the the banks and the insurance companies. you know so they're not a point in time european trade commission a 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 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 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 pushes them it's not a tool traditionally is thirsty for ideas from could not be acton's 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 i became managing director of the open services firm. in january ninety ninety nine we had. eleven months to prepare seattle first. a ministerial conference after the creation of this organisation in ninety four and the idea was that this meeting is going to lounge the millenium brown that so you.

britain had so much push for. britain never got to see how tall the interne 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 tail and there's 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 or blocking the door by lying. 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 disallows of the c.s. around so that we will enter into a new phase a negotiation oliver is a libra zation of the service. i remember that commissioner let me as been blocking

i mean he has been able to enter he's caught 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 high v.i.p. here can do its job. many n.g.o.s say that yourself is a secret secret organisation having secret meetings you can commission although everything is on the website i mean i am doing my job by contacting the commission with 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 on the website i'm just doing my job and i don't have anything specific but if the commission has some relationship with us if it is 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 of europe which is really a very big. russell's older nice

a friend who looked so lots of people from different countries different jobs different walks of life who do all interested in. how can you develop how can we write things that are wrong and how can i build a lot we've already done. i mean coolest thing trying to. think things in brussels are filling a part of the vacuum that exists so that you would have thought that there was no european probably to base. to 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 the 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 it's a bit like you really if you would be told by one and not well or when i would to

be to be 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 hence all of these are heavily dependent on industry funding. several 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 brussels that were directly from the by the oil industry and that we're working to sort out about whether it or such a thing as climate change and whether it's important for governments to have access to as you seem to emissions. you can set up research institutes to provide you with. research that's kind of. strengthens

your position. you can launch a massive p.r. campaign 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 toward these advertisements from an enduro that's said it was representing small and medium sized companies but the financial backers of this n.g. hope for microsoft and the people. in the end it's all about money in the macross he it's one person one fault in 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. in

a secret lab or turing curbeam was able to build in its most sophisticated robots which all unfortunately doesn't give a don't amount anything tunes mission to teach me the creation of life should care about humans and. this is why you should care only.

so one of my first testimonies before the european commission was a very very awakening spirits. 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. why 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 had to decide to regulate lobbying for

a long time. before the new commission came in and for the first time eastern european countries were part of. the first burnell commission started its in autumn two thousand and four we wrote an open letter to the commission president and. also 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 very short form a letter saying we received your letter sent you a very interesting. no substantial response. so it was sent a signal to all the presidents of the commission. and suddenly towards the end of february we were contacted by same color as commissioner from estonia responsible for administration in fighting against. 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 were welcomed by mr cullison himself and one of his cabinet members. in this and mystical isn't a brochure and that made us smile it was a lovely plan it's got to brussels which was a tongue in cheek but very critical that a look at industry lobbying in the you written by eric and me in our our colleagues . when i started as mr mason commission and i really souls that services so weak suspicion surrounding said decision making in european union. of course i. say establish for myself a purpose do a little to reduce the suspicions. told a step he was going to launch this european transparency initiative and we immediately saw that these rules are because political opportunity. as an outsider

to brussels business he also had a clear sense for how the ordinary citizen brussels. and some colors to get on with the lobby industry. european commission is going to its that's activities of interests representatives are legitimate valuable input into decision making process have to happen in a transparent manner the commission can see that that these important to know their interest representatives are 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 of course met. excitement of controversial reactions on if you know without financial transparency

we'll never find out who really is behind the campaigning stick. a little bit more construal on ourselves wouldn't harm our reputation with our voters but it cannot be 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 i 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 same color as when i first started working with him in the european commission some callers helped really the whole significance of needing transparency. he was very adamant at first about setting up

a mandatory disclosure system everyone full transparency but halfway through the process some callers came up against the political reality and. after free years of struggle and political fight and exhausted commission and set the stage to finally launch a lobby register. with moon moon or off and on. so quite that remarkable moment today. three years ago i proposed to set up a register of lobbyists you know to do in hans transparency and and legitimacy and i want you to see in making persists and that is the start of openness from today. so we proposed voluntary solution because. i was i am convinced that cease walt suit full or all expect basins and

i async said today's them is a very important moment of cultural change i am also earnings the seven seas aspect of this isn't making in european institutions. sinclair's 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's 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 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. and i must say that on the reading of my easing mccarty nashik culture over each disappeared 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. contineu bear and bunch of holy shit are notorious deregulators. in paris from now on this works to provide financial market intelligence to big banks.

three 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 liberal think tanks and brussels and poland and the u.k. . all the single of these wise men was in favor of strict regulation another 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 night a lot of public money was flowing to the banks. as if. 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 where 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 a does what. europeans had wanted. wasn't

really naive to have a european dream. to do this in the human nature and you have nothing on. your list half about science and. and we need to make sure that we keep only the good and therefore you need religion. when you live in a society you have proof because otherwise people are going too fast on the motorway because people are not respected elders because the stronger take this place this is this is a human nature what we have done to go and make sure that we live together is by creating legislation in place by creating an authority that everyone respect.

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