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 represented sixty percent of western europe's industrial output this was blackmailing. 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. finally in spring one thousand nine hundred seventy we assembled the results of our investigations and interviews into a report europe. rescheduled the book 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 to arrive. very little or no press showed up. so unfortunately our first public events was really not noticed by the pope. and. you drop in to the right down this road block today and groove a key exercise. the strengthening of the rule system of multilateral trade. and

perhaps most important the establishment of a 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 we stand like we'd like to do that. we've come to the end of the most reaching negotiation ever. the negotiators of the one hundred seventeen governments and i'm a cheap to make stuart recent certs. with your approval there for my gavel the euro why rodas can no. internal

market as. was becoming a 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 we see his counterpart here you know your office and garden 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 charlie and 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. we discovered that there is a whole world. of lobbyists in washington to tell the government what they want in

the trade it was here. and we thought this is a 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 experts in the finance ministry i think need to get the information directly from the the banks at the insurance company. so then at a point in time european commission a so in britain decided ok there is association i'm 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 pushes them it's not 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 buy the private sector came up and became managing director of the open services firm. in january one thousand and nine we had. eleven months to prepare seattle first.

i mean it's your confidence as a creation of this organization imagine that for and the idea was that this meeting is going to lounge the million young brown that 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. and in seattle 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 ground 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 liveries

a libra zation of the service. i remember that commissioner let me as been blocking i mean he has been able 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 high v.i.p. here can do its job. many n.g.o.s say that in itself is a secret secret organisation having secret meetings you can commission all the way everything is on a 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 the phone number is 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.

the c c i knew it dinner at the friends if you're a cheese really of bravery russell's older nice a friend look at salsa people from different countries different jobs different walks of life who do all interested in. how can you develop how can we be right things to do wrong and how can we build a lot we've already done. i mean coolest thing trying to. think tanks 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 process bubble. there are national politicians doing european politician or a serious civil servant said the dreaded you know it cracks a good diplomat story of businessmen get their faces through to

a sentence will still see people wondering about bristles easy to read like a really everybody will still want to not read when i would say they need to eat a lot of my job is to keep in contact. think tanks are not themselves lobbyists but they are part of the landscape of law because companies used them to transmit their demands from their their perspectives and hence all of these are heavily dependent on the industry from the. simple 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 party or oil industry and that we're working to. sold 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 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 toward 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 is happy. in the end it's all about money in the crossing it's one person one fold 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 put

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. to speak for language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks books that vo ip interviews intriguing story for you. is the interest of the arabic to find out more visit arabic don't all teeth don't call.

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 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 very short form a letter saying we 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 same color as commissioner from estonia responsible for administration inviting us to come over. so we went to mr collis his 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 we 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 colleagues. when i started the. commission and i really souls are so weak suspicion surrounding so decision making in european union. of course i. say establish for myself a purpose to reduce the suspicions. told to step he was going to launch this european transparency initiative and we immediately sold it to become political. business. sense for. us. to get on with the straight. european commission is going to it's that's activities of interest representatives are legitimate valuable input into 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. of 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. 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 this. 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. 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 are sure 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 set 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 i am convinced 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 making in european institutions. some colors 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 that independent high level group on from actual supervision. to 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 are unloading

not using mccarty less like belzer over each disappeared as found on this and last number. we looked into the independence of this independent group and we found some less honestly thinks. the lover she is the co-chair of a financial lobby organisation. 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. free of the eight were directly linked to american banks all of which were directly involved in causing the crisis. which in addition it's closely linked to american right wing think tanks like the cato institute this was one of the closest advisors to the bush administration he

was also involved in the earlier i 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 time a lot of public money was flowing to the banks it is the. law 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 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 a dis what we europeans had wanted. wasn't really naive to have a european dream. in the human nature and yet not on. your list but sites number. ten we need to make sure that we keep only the good and therefore you need british

. when you live in a society you have truth because otherwise people are going too fast on the motorway because people in their respective elss because the stronger take this basis is. this is a human nature what we have done to go and make sure that we leave together these by creating new to strange things by creating an authority that everyone respect.

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