but the decorative acts. more 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. 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 east summit in them so that all the media would be there we were excited as. we had prepared the book launch and how from all before the first friends started arriving . very little or no press showed up.

so unfortunately our first public events was really not noticed by the pope. jumped into the place down this road block a very groove a key exercise the strength of the roof system of multilateral crate. and perhaps most important to establish multiple stronger broadly based welding for a new organized. by south it to work on the financial services cats negotiations that would remain a time when i discovered it's interesting and why. we'd like to do that. we've come

to the most reaching legal situation. the negotiators of the one hundred seventeen governments an. extraordinary success. with your approval there for my gavel to europe i rode. in telemarketing. was becoming any very important market rich market with 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 commissioner through from union was complaining that i with every time he was going to negotiate with the united states in front of him we see is counterpart here you have your office and gardener and sister through the stories and on his back he would have c.e.o.'s of big banks

a big insurance companies telling please do that for me please do that for us but winterland britain was turning his back to see where this 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 you know. we discovered that there is a whole world of lobbyists in washington to tell their government what they want in the trade. 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 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 go. going to invite for

dinner 14 c.e.o. 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 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 pushes them it's not so 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 use

by the private sector came up and became managing director of the open services for . relief. in general to 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's so you know britain had so much push for. britain never got to see how tall the inter 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. and there is

a conference was in the sheraton five hundred meters away and i have not been allowed to go out of the hotel because there was one protest looking to buy 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 as allowance of the c. s. around so that we will enter into a new phase in negotiation oliver is a libra zation of the service. i remember that commissioner let me ask been blocked i mean he has been in for 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 way 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 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 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 can i build on what we've seen would be done. i mean clearly something trying. thing to sing in brussels are you feeling a part the of the. that existed that you would have thought that there was no

european probably to base. the 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 and the dreaded you know it cracks a good diplomat through businessmen get their faces through the universe into its will still see people wondering about bristles it's a bit like really if you would be told they want to not read when i will to be on the train 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 hence all of these are heavily dependent on industry funding. simple pinkness 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 x. 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 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 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 and she hopes for microsoft and is happy. in the end it's all about money in the

crossing it's one person one fault but in brussels baseness it's one euro one fault the problem is sweet don't know about the money behind politics we don't know how much is being spent on the wealthy 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 it in decision making what is the role of a large company like monsanto or shell. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. markets finance scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline news you need to cause

a report on. these children. they're serving a sentence just like their mother. did the ones born in prison. now known less pain for the crimes committed by their parents. kill babies on our teeth. for some people extreme cold just a chilling threat to life or imminent death it's a cooling if you look you can see that the. water in my body feels really warm now

and this is good for you. they plunge into icy water to make themselves stronger you can't get used to the cold or what you can tolerate it and you can struggle with. people of snow and ice picks as a frost. having the cold. so one of my first testimony 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 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. before 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 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 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 a signal to all the presidents of the commission. and suddenly towards the end of february we were contacted by the same color as commissioner from estonia responsible for administration in fighting us to come over. so we went to mr ellis is all for. switch was somewhere at 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 and in his hand is the colors of the brochure and that made us smile it was a lovely plan it got to brussels which was a tongue in cheek but a very critical look at industry lobbying in the u. written by eric and me in our our colleagues. when i started as mr race and commission and i really souls at services so weak suspicion surrounding said this isn't 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 its roots are because political opportunity. has an outside of the brussels business he also had a clear sense for how the ordinary citizen brussels. and some colors to get on with the lobby in the street. european commission is going to its that's activities of interests representatives are legitimate and offer a valuable input into the decision making process have to happen in a transparent manner the commission can see that is 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 it was of course met . with. of reactions on if you know without financial

transparency we'll never find out who really is behind the campaign and stick. 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. 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 european commission and the european parliament to tell the truth i was very impressed with the same color 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 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 commissioner colorless entered the stage to finally launch a lobby register a good. with. off and on. so i am quite that unlockable moment today. three years ago i proposed to set up a register of lobbyists and in order to enhance transparency and and legitimacy i don't say i'm evil decision making process and that is that openness from today. so we've proposed. very solution because i was i am i am convinced that cease would suit for all expect basins and

i think that today's is a very important moment of cultural change. concerning zeese. aspect of this isn't making in european institutions. some cause 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. 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. shackle our share and i must say. on a weeding out 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 s. honestly thinks. the legacy is the co-chair of a financial lobby organization. to lehman brothers. leading 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 bad. 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 earlier and think tanks in brussels and poland and the u.k. . of a single of these wise men who 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 zero the main thing that happened lost 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 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 a dis what we europeans had wanted. wasn't

really naïve to have a european dream. it is in the human nature and you are not on the good you always have a bad side some. 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 groups 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 and the theory that everyone respect.

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