going to do what 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 frett the year to represented 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. undercover interviews. and finally in spring one thousand nine hundred seventy we assembled the results of our investigations and interviews into a report in europe to. reschedule the book launch for the big use some of them so that all the media would be there we were excited as. we had prepared the book launch and half an hour before the first friend 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 players. margaret 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 great negotiation ever. the negotiators of the hundred seventeen governments and i'm a cheap to mix door recent service. with your approval therefore my gavel to europe why rose continued. in

telemarketing. was becoming a 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 commission of your opinion was complaining that i was every time he was going to negotiate with the united states in front of him when we see his counterpart here you have your office and garden systems 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 when charlie and britain was turning his back to see where his 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 here. we discovered that

there is a whole world of lobbyists in washington to tell the 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 experts in the finance ministry i think need to get the information directly from the the banks at the joint company. 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 dissipation 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 is used by 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

every cio i mean it's your conference after the creation of this organization imagine at four and the idea was that this meeting is going to lounge the millenium brown that 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 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 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 as a louse of the c.s.

around so that we will enter into a new phase a negotiation for liver is a liver is a shot of service. i remember that commissioner let me ask been blocked 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 high 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 their website i mean i am doing my job by contacting the commission with officials responsible for my file if anybody has 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 but is a commission has some relationship with the surface 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. b c c i knew it dinner at the friends if you're a cheese really afraid brussels organize a friend who looked 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 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 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 good professors from universities will still see people wondering about bristles it's a bit like it really everybody still wanted out well when i would simply change the motive 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 presently knew 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. two acts 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 it's the people. in the end it's all about money in the it's one person one fold 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 multi and by whom and on which issues. we need to put this on the

democrats control it has to be made visible what the role is of lobbying in the decision making what is the role of a large company like monsanto or shell. wealthy british style it's an expert on this planet earth. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. for a no holds barred global financial headlines kaiser report. and

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one of my first testimonies before the european commission was a very very awakening experience. but. 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. why 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 to sell them for a new commission came in for the first time and used to. european countries for part of. the first burst of commission started in autumn two thousand and four we wrote an open letter to the commission president. 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 it was sent a signal to all the presidents of the commission. and suddenly towards the end of february we were contacted by 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 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 him smile it was a lovely planet guide 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 the commission and i really sold at several says so weak suspicion surrounding some decision making in european union. of course i. say establish for

myself a purpose to look to reduce the suspicions. told to step he was going to launch this european transparency initiative and we immediately saw that these fruits are because political opportunity. has an outside business he also had a clear sense for how the ordinary citizen process. is to get on with the lobby in the street. european commission is going to its that's activities of interests representatives are legitimate 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 the excitement of controversial reactions and if you know without financial transparency we'll never find out who really is behind the campaigning stick. a little bit more. a control on ourselves wouldn't harm our reputation with our voters but it cannot be transparency must not for closer contact with real life with interest groups or groups without interest thank you commissioner callous and certainly understand. when 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 i 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 as when i first started working with him in the european commission some call as helped really the whole significance of needing transparency. he was very adamant at first about setting up a mandatory disclosure system having full transparency but halfway through the process some colors came up against the political reality and. after free years of struggle and political fights and exhausted commission and set the stage to finally launch a lobby register a group. would moon moon. so quite that remarkable moment today. three years ago i proposed to set up a register of lobbyists i mean all of the one hans transparency and and legitimacy

and you decision making process and. openness from today. so we proposed voluntary solution because i was i am comments that cease would shoot for all expect basins and i think that today's them is a very important moment of culture. change i am also an easy seven six 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 callouses 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 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. struck a lower share and i must say that on the reading of my easing mccarty nashik culture over each recipient as found on this and last nuba. we looked into the independence of this independent group and we found some less honest things. is the co-chair of a financial lobby organization. linked to lehman brothers. greeting to citi group

leasing to goldman sachs. mccarty nuber and bunch of always are notorious deregulators. and paris fernand this works to provide financial market intelligence to big bank. three of the eight were directly linked to american banks all of which were directly involved in causing the crisis. in addition it's closely linked to american right wing think tanks like the cato institute this was one of the closest advisers to the bush administration he was also involved in the earlier i 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 a financial crisis was here are the main thing that happened last night 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 naive to have a european dream. you did in the human nature and you are not on the good you always have about science and. and we need to make sure that we keep only the good and therefore you need regulation. when you live in a society you have groups because otherwise people are going too fast on the motorway because people are not respected elders because this trauma takes place

this is this is a human nature what we have done to go and make sure that we live together is by creating legislation in place by creating an authority that everyone respects or.

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