december nine hundred eighty five he wrote to the heads of state just before the signing of the single european act which 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 to year we 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 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 europe. was scheduled to 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 friends started arriving but. very little or no press. so unfortunately our first public events must really

not notice as part of. the job of the most ambitious marketer ruled by a key exercise the strengthening of the rule system of multilateral craig. and perhaps most important the establishment of a stronger broadly by. threatening to organize very. vice started to work on the financial services gats negotiations and that was really the time where i discovered this is we like we'd like to do that. we've come to the end of the most far reaching trade negotiation ever. the

negotiators of the hundred seventeen governments and richie vtam extraordinary success. with your approval there for my gavel the euro why rodas can no. internal market that. was becoming a very important market reach 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 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 as i was every time he was going to negotiate with the united states in front of him when we see his counterpart theory of every office in and garden systems and on his back he has c.e.o.'s of big banks a big insurance. telling please do that for me please do that for us but winterland

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 their government what they want in the training. 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 bank that the insurance companies. you know so then at a point in time european commission a so in britain decided ok there is 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 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 that pushes them it's not a tool traditionally is thirsty for ideas from could not be acton's to hopeless to decide i want to put food. this is where the idea of creating a network of association and companies pushing for the trade in service if you are . by the private sector i came up i became managing director of the open services

for. relief. in general to nine we had. eleven months to prepare seattle first every cio i mean it's your conference after the creation of this organization imaginative 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 to turn 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 space in the tail 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 protest 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 for labor 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 no 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 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. fun number he's on the in the 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. b c c i knew a dinner at the french if you're a cheese really a very big brussels organization 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 into wrong and how can we build a lot 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 to base. to syntax to step into that

vacuum and they are forums in which something like a debate happens inside the brussels bubble. there are national politicians here european politicians a serious civil servant said the dreaded you know it creates a dear good diplomat story a businessman get professors from universities will soon see people wondering about bristles isn't a bit like a really everybody will still want to know. when i will actually be on the team a lot of 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 all of these are heavily dependent on industry funding. several people are sponsoring it microsoft is one of the american business he said presently do it michael. self is one of the why not.

to have had think tanks in brussels that were directly from the by the oil industry and that were working to sort 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'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 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 across here it's one

person one fault but in the brussels baseness it's one euro one fault the problem it's we don't know about the money behind politics we don't know how much is being spent on lobbying 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. these children are in me. they're serving a certain. just like their mother.

the ones born in prison. now almost for the crimes committed by their parents. killed babies on our teeth. i. tell. me she could speak. to. her.

i wish i. could. see the mountain. and. i know me better than. i. so one of my first testimonies before the european commission was a very very awakening. 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 i'll concede that a lot of these k. street lobbyists and the professional obvious 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 how 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 person 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. when i would just like to say thank your. 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 have received your letter sent you very interesting. but no substantial response. so we sent a similar 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 were 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 u. written by eric and me in our our colleagues. when i started as a mistress and commission and i really souls that will says 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. must hold a step he was going to launch this european transparency initiative and we immediately saw that it was her because political opportunity. as an outsider to brussels business here. sense for how do you want.

to get on with the industry. european commission is going. to self interest represent the. value of 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 at the makes the speech. of course outlined main principles of transparency nice at the which should be done and. look at the 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. transparency must not for closer contact with real life with interest groups or groups without interest thank you commissioner callus can 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 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 some call this 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. every 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. old mill. off and on. so i am quite that unlockable moment today. three years ago i proposed. to set up the register of lobbyists in order to enhance don't spend a cent and legitimacy i don't say i'm evil decision making process and that is the focus from today. so we broke post one on three 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 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. one month after the financial crisis started in october two thousand and eight. appointed the independent high level group on. i mentioned 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. i'm alluding of my easing mccarty lissac belzer over each recipient as found on this and last nuba. we looked into the independence of this independent group and we found some mesan issue things. the lover she 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. 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 earthing times 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 zero the main thing that happened was that a lot of public money was flowing to the banks. is eve. of the arab. this torture 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 by 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 age and yet not only could you always have a but site somewhere. and we need to make sure that we keep only the good and therefore you need regulation. when you live in a society you half truths because otherwise people are going too fast on the motorway because people in a respected elss because they're stronger take this space this 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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