before the signing of the single european act which started the process of the single market. the crux of the telephone 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 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 it was 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. and undercover interviews. and finally in spring one thousand and seven we assembled the results of our investigations and interviews into a report in europe to. reschedule the book launch for the big use from a and m. so that all the media would be there we were excited. we had prepared the book launch and half an hour before the first friend started arriving but. very little or no press showed up. so unfortunately our first public events. that's

really not news is part of. the jump to the most ambitious monster very rule very key exercise the strengthening of the rule system of multilateral trade. and perhaps most important the establishment of a stronger broadly. brain organizer and. i started to work on the financial services cats negotiations and that was really the time where i discovered this is we'd like we'd like to do that. we've come to the end of the most far reaching trade negotiation. the negotiators

of the one hundred seventeen governments and richie vtam extraordinary success. with your approval therefore my gavel to europe why rose continued. in telemarketing. was becoming a 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 if you mean it was complaining that i was every time he was going to negotiate with the united states in front of him we see his counterpart here you have your office in and guard our systems and on his back he has c.e.o.'s of big banks a big insurance companies telling please do that for me please do that for us but when celia britain was. turning his back to see where the support 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 because we discovered that there is a whole world of lobbyists in washington to tell the 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 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 a so in britain decided ok there was association and 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 decisions 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 to 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 the actons to hopeless to decide want to put food. this is where the idea of creating a network of association and companies pushing for the trade in service is viewed by the private sector came up i became managing director of the open services firm . really.

in general in atlanta nine we had. eleven months to prepare seattle first every cio i mean it's 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 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 hotel 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 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 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 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 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 that. is

a commission has some relationship with yes 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 if you're a which is really a very big brussels organize a train a lot so lots of people from different countries different jobs different walks of life who do all interested in. how can europe develop how can we be right things to do wrong and how can i build on what we've already done. i mean coolest thing trying. to think tanks in brussels are feeling a part of the vacuum that exists at the e.u. level that there is no european probably the case. to syntax to step into that vacuum and they are forums in which something like

a debate happens inside the process but. there are national politicians here european politicians mysterious civil servant said the dreaded you know it creates a dear good diplomat story of businessmen good professors from universities will soon see people wondering about bristles it's a bit like a religion if you would be told still want to know where or when i will actually be on a change the lot of my job is to keep in contact. think tanks are not themselves lobbyists but they are part of the landscape of lobby because companies use them to transmit their demands from their their perspectives and 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 the process that were directly from the by the oil

industry and that we're working to sold out about whether there is such a thing as climate change and whether it's important for governments to act is 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 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 a 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 n.g. over microsoft and as a people. in the end it's all about money in the christian it's one person one vote 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 multi and by whom and on which issues. we need to cut this on the democrats control it has to be made visible what the role is of lobbying the decision making what is the role of a large company like monsanto or shell. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia with that very profitable it is a very high return on investment. in gold though i mean he has said but i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups and they will buy me bad if i knew the managers have changed their name and strategy but they're still the same murderous. suspects you know call.

mr president. the president. but. i won't give him i'm sorry but no. investigation. says sick stuff and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. to watch themselves because the same goes for the. rivers from. never heard of such a case as ours are so much money stolen so many years. for all the gold in colombia.

so one of my first testimonies before the european commission was a very very awakening spirit. 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 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 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 jose manuel barroso 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 a signal letter to all the presidents of the commission. and suddenly towards the end of february we were contacted by the official 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 were welcomed by mr cullison himself

and one of his cabinet members. is the colors of the brochure and that made us smile it was a lovely plan of god to brussels which was. very critical look at industry lobbying in the you written by eric and me in our our colleagues. when i started racing commission and really souls are so weak suspicion surrounding so this isn't making in european union. 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 to political. business. sense for.

us to get on with the lobby in the street. european commission is going to. this of interests represent the. decision making process have to happen in a transparent manner the commission can see that's important to know. what the interests they represent and against what financial background. 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 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 callus 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 europe. in commission in 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 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 call us and to the stage to finally launch a lobby register a good. would know them. all off and. so quite that remarkable moment today. three years ago i proposed to set up a register of lobbyists in order to enhance transparency and and legitimacy and i want you decision making process and. openness from today. so we proposed voluntary solution because i was i am am comments that cease would suit for all expect basins and i think that two days there is a very important moment of cultural change. concerning zeese.

aspect of this is in making in european institutions. some colors 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. one 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 are unloading my easing mccarty nashik culture over each to separate us from now on this and last nigga. 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 organisation must arise limb to limb and brothers. reading to citi group leasing to goldman sachs. accounting 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 into 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 think tanks in brussels and poland and the u.k. . other similarities wise men there was in favor of strict regulation now the single one of them was really independence and the effect of the. is it wise man on overcoming the financial crisis was still the main thing that happened last night a lot of public money was flowing to the banks. to see if. this author 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. wasn't really naive to have a european dream. to

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