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came up with another detail.

There was an influential lobby group

behind this and they asked us ...

... 'Do you know of ERT, the European

Round Table of Industrialists?'

I did not.

I started digging for more

information about ERT.

I went to our archive

and I didnt find anything.

I started diving into the alien

world of business press.

Newspapers like the Financial

Times, The ecconomist, ...

... German business

newspapers.

And we've found

references to a new report ...

... that have been published

shortly before, called ...

... 'Reshaping Europe'.

That sounded

rather interesting.

And we've ordered this report from

European Round Table headquarters.

I did not believe that

I would get anything ...

... but a few days later

a big brown envelope ...

... arrived in

my letterbox.

Three booklets

were inside.

I took the first two

publications, ...

... 'Missing networks',

'Missing links'.

Gone through them.

Something is strange about them.

Euro Tunnel

Scanlink

Pyreneas corridor

Somehow they

looked soo familiar.

I went to the archive.

'TEN project'

by the Commission.

I went through the papers.

I compared them. Back and forth.

What a striking similarity.

Projects are almost identical.

The Commission seems

copy/pasted ERT proposals.

Now I was

really curious.

I took 'Reshaping Europe'.

The authors,

three CEO's.

Jerome Monod, Pehr

Gyllenhamar and Wisse Dekker.

Living in the Nederlands

I knew Wisse Dekker.

He was the head of the Philips. One of

the largest companies in the country.

Pehr Gyllenhamar was the head

of Volvo, car producing company.

And Jerome Mono was the

head of Lyoneaisse des eaux, ...

... very large French

multinational.

So, the authors of

this report were ...

... three CEO's from some of the

biggest companies in Europe.

It was a political manifesto

written by these industry leaders.

Meeting in Dublin

is mentioned.

45 CEO's.

All from multinational

companies, ...

... representing billions

of euro's of turnover.

Companies like

Fiat, La Farge, ...

... British Petroleum,

Hoechst, Nestle, ...

... Shell, Unilever, Siemens

and many others, ...

... all of them supported

what is in this book.

What was

stunning was that ...

... these three CEO's would

sit down and actually write ...

... report that was a detailed

set of recommendations ...

... for how to change

the face of Europe.

I finished my job with the

Commission in April 1990.

And I have decided that maybe is best

place is, actually, where the money is.

So I went to the European

Banking Federation.

I have worked

a long time.

Nine years in the European

Banking Federation ...

... and I started

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