oh yes believe me. i like to speak to the police. it's not that no well listen i'd like to go to leave a message for tomorrow i just wanted to confirm the meeting. that we have fixed. my name is mr kenny's best calculates kidney r m e i s. s from the from the european services forum e.s.f. this and we have a meeting tomorrow but i didn't get time today to to go to those i want to. visit ok. thank you very much.

dresses is a small city to kind of provinces but that's on this earth. when you know a bit further about it's brussels is really the place. this is where the business is taking place this is where they just station is dot i think there was the figure is around eighty percent of all ages stations which. touching direct life of european citizens has actually been initiated. just.

if you look at the plus human the epicenter of political power in europe you see the european commission on the one side next to the council of the e.u. . and all around that's where you find lobby offices most of them belonging to big multinational corporations and you find them also in all of the side streets all over to the european parliament and beyond. to finance the lobby at borders of large corporations who find industry lobby groups and their lobby operations being in orchestrated from offices in that area. two thousand five hundred lobby structures are based in brussels fifteen thousand lobbyists the second biggest blobby industry in the world only washington d.c. has been here. so that european union let's listen this is complicated it goes through a lot of stages it always starts with the european commission they take. new

initiatives for the for legislation for policies and then it goes through the institutions the parliament the council of ministers. and from the moments the european commission takes its very first steps in developing nearly sleigh tional new policies industry wants to be there to influence its.

i mean any situation something so bringing want to have the possibility to go. for the private sector where i would decide myself. what a way to sell it that's much more. something. that i just call the business around the open situation. to be lobbyists.

you know we. everybody believe the bad. some lawmakers institutions and the situations in the european union is about the commission the council of ministers and the european parliament but there is also. another world behind that which is how to influence the institutions to make a text to give a good idea to. propose amendments to trying to fine tune the tax depending on the interest of the people and when you're to push. lobbying. is it was originally in vision is a good thought it no longer. maker can be an expert in all the fields that he or

she has to deal with and so they rely on other people giving them advice. but lobbying went from that field of expertise into what is more properly called hired guns so you now have people who may not be an expert in anything they're dealing with but they're paid for by clients who want them to pursue specific objectives what makes them so effective is many of these hired guns will be what what we call revolving door abusers and these will be people who were in governments then come out of government and are hired by the very same people that had business pending before them when they were in government and the mid ninety's we had come across so many examples of your policies that were basically

captured by industry and industry lobbying was felt was really a fundamental problem here the influence of industries is excessive and we decided to set up a group to document examples and to start developing a strategy to roll back this excess of the flow and. that's how it started as. one day and then the summer of one thousand nine hundred three i remember a fax came in a fax machine in the office. and it came from the south of france. from the local environmental group. this group was fighting against a motorway that was planned to go through a valley in the area to live in the valley of us a clutch can be very important to the area a very beautiful area. the group asked if we knew more about the role of

the european union and and specifically the european commission in this motorway projects. so we started looking into this we discovered that this motorway project was part of something called the trans european networks. the transfer p and that works was the biggest infrastructure projects in history with the estimated budget of four hundred billion. euro. funds from sweden came up with another detail there was an influential lobby group behind this and they asked us you know about a year to the european round table of industrialists. i don't know. i started digging for more information about the iraqi. i went to our archive and i didn't find anything. i started diving into the alien world of the business press

newspapers like the financial times the economist german business newspapers and we found a reference to a new report that had been published shortly before called reshaping europe. but rather interesting and we ordered this reports at the european the round table at quarters. i wrote in the request mentioning as the purpose of research. i did not believe i would get anything but a few days later a big brown envelope arrived in my letter box. please booklets are inside missing links missing networks and receiving your. i take the first two publications going through them something strange about them somehow they look so familiar. euro tunnel. scanning.

here in these corridor. i go to the archives. of. the t.n. projects by the commission. i go through the papers and compare them back and forth. striking similarity. projects are almost identical. mission seems to have copy paste of the year two proposals. wealthy british style. that's not on the.

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now i'm really curious reshaping europe. a meeting in dublin has mentioned forty five c.e.o.'s all from multinational companies representing billions of euros of turnover. companies like fiat's the farce british petroleum kirkstall nestlé siemens shell unit lever and many others all of them supporting what is in this book. the all source free c.e.o.'s. showroom or no girl in a hummer and this attacker. living in the netherlands i knew this a decker he was the head of philips one of the largest companies in the country.

and i was the head of volvo a car producing company. and showman nor was the head of lee honest as a very large french automotive national. so the authors of this report were three c.e.o.'s from some of the biggest companies in europe it was a political manifesto written by his industry leaders. oh it was a stunning was that these days free c.e.o.'s would would sit down and actually write. a report that was a detail set of recommendations for how to change the face of europe.

for. me here when. i finish my job in the commission in april nineteenth one thousand. and ninety cited that may be suppressed place is actually where the money is so i went to the open banking federation. and i started to feel beast. and. used to be i asked worked a. long time nine years in the open banking for duration and i started also to discover. an additional work to europe which was. international trade.

the illegal. everything. going your book read them. but you know our industries. yeah i mean if you are lobbyists you obviously need to have a lot of contacts you probably find a figure of one hundred person which i will keep in my job. to make. sure that you keep your thirty year commitment. i mean my job i describe it as a network as a fascinating time as an ambassador and from want to be an ambassador you have to know who you have to talk. to i can say that i would present around eighty percent of all services exporters and investors. as a turnover. let's say fifty percent of the g.d.p.

of european union. i don't really believe in two. it's part of it but most of the time you will provoke chants and then it's going to be up to you to see the open. when chatting. in december one thousand nine hundred three the n.-g. o. network i work for had its annual meeting and the meeting was to take place in brussels. we were very impressed by what we had found out about a year t. and its influence that time there were no academic studies to show anything about the power of these large multinational companies on the new policies. we decided that this was the perfect opportunity to call for attention on the role of the year to. well we brainstormed about what to do and we decided to do something a little provoking. the night before we wrote

a press release and in the early morning we went to the ear to the office. and one of us rang the doorbell and told the secretary that's here's a student looking for some documents and when the door opened we all ran up the stairs quickly and we all managed to get into the office that way. i remember very well i was at some meeting in the morning so i think it was mid morning i came into the office and found banners high new around the office and lots of strange faces around so i said what's what's happening will somebody please tell me what's going on and they said oh we've come to occupy your building and. possibly they want to do a confrontation possibly they wanted me to ring up the police and have the police

come in through the mail but. didn't seem to be a good idea at all indeed finally some reason but we had an office lunch so i took everybody my people out to lunch and left them. we were surprised by the reaction that we got from the sea they went off into a room and talked about it apparently and decided to leave. and what we did was using the press lists we faxed the press release to the international media. that we expected that's the occupation of this very shadowy able to very powerful business lobby group which really interested media. so things went a little bit differently. i think we talked to one newspaper and there was a radio program that was interested and for the rest it was silence. or that we didn't know when the t.v. stuff would come back but it's all the tables that were position papers and reports

lying around but it was also all very neatly organized archive everything sort it's . so we decided to move to would be foster and copy as much as possible. in those documents where letters from the year two and the months from the year two to european governments and to the european commission and i would responses. and it really showed the degree of access that they had an incredible influence and it was it was clear from those documents. so when we tracked back the history of that your team we found that the start in the early days. from the commission the the member of the commission who was really keen was a man called

a belgian called steve. he had diplomatic business background and he could see the need he said if i want to talk to european industry who i talked to. what i've heard out of the commission over in just the insufficient ground in reduce their commission. the economy. the ration rich existed reservation with the fetish was of interest out there i would say to know for sure that but not at the level of the. sponsor for individual business and i felt that through a missing us and so we decided to set up. a group of industrious rich or be guaranteed yachtie so as to have the capacity to listen to the c.e.o.'s. the were the and

yelling who ran the fia in italy booth with the decker who rammed phillips and another that. was paid guillen how to run volvo in sweden people from siemens and the big german chemical companies the french spaniards then the british . small number of people who ran. the biggest companies in europe and were ready to talk about big policy issues with those people who would be in charge of the european government. and then when they need. a visionary president of the commission by the all they find the law is thinking in entirely the same tone. so why don't they get together and pool their ideas that's

a breakthrough read. on the facilitate that's probably a good a good way to put me as a description not being is the only way is. understood as a bit of a dirty word but it's just networking just contact between human beings. the world is very small actually as a people we have to reach out actually at the end of the day it's becoming smaller and smaller if you know the right person actually you know it's going to be about a hundred person keep us and the rest are moving around in brussels talking about. the crazed companies are global. and therefore the american companies the chinese companies the engine companies are taiwanese

companies are actually my my allies we're working together for the same purpose which is to open up the market. one thousand nine hundred three was the year when the european union was born. to us that have been sold as a political project. for these letters that we had found in december point is in a totally different direction. again a master plan behind it's. like with a t. and projects. written by the year to. the final showed the year t. and the european commission were meeting on a regular basis. in. turn

was amazingly jovial and informal. all that went on in complete secrecy. and the european commission work hand in hand. and nine hundred eighty four missing links is published and. immediately after the european commission sets up a working group with the unexpected this topic generated nine hundred eighty five this is decker c.e.o. philips presents his europe one thousand nine hundred and his action plan for the single market. ten days later chuckle or the new president of the european commission gives a speech about the single market in the european parliament which sounds like the echo of decker speech done to me in india. in june one thousand nine hundred five more cofield vice president of the commission published

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