The Brussels Business Page #3

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also to discover ...

... an additional work to

Europe, which was ...

... international trade.

It was just before

1992. single market.

Jacque Delors at that

time was the president ...

... and he had

really givin' impetus.

He emphasised that

Europe was something ...

... and that we

have a role to play.

And that was really pushing

everybody in the city to say ...

... 'There is something that

all of us together can do.'

It was a feeling that

if we act together ...

... we can be friends

and change the world.

I can say that I

represent around 80% ...

... of all of the services

exporters and investors.

I can say that I represent

around 60 million workers.

As a turnover it is, let's say 50%

GDP of the European Union.

I dont really

believe in to chance.

It's part of it, but most of the

time you will provoke a chance.

And then it's gonna

be up to you to ...

... see opportunity when

the chance is there.

In December 1993., NGO

network I worked for ...

... had it's

annual meeting.

And the meeting should

take place in Brussels.

They decided that this was

the perfect opportunity ...

... to do something

a little provoking.

Night before we

wrote press release ...

... and in the early morning

we went to the ERT office.

One of us rang the door bell

and told the secretary that ...

... he is a student looking

for some documents.

When the door opened we all

run up the stairs quickly ...

... and we all managed to get

in the ERT office that way.

I remember it very well.

I was at some meeting ....

... in the morning, so I think

it was mid-morning ...

... when I came

into the office ...

... and found banners

hanging around the office ...

... and a lots of

strange faces around.

So I said,

'What's happening?'

'Will somebody please

tell me what's going on?'

And they said, 'We've come to

occupy your building and ...'

Possibly they

wanted a confrontation.

Possibly they wanted

me to ring up the police ...

... and have the police come

and throw them out, but ...

... it didnt seemed to

be a good idea at all.

Indeed finally, there

was some reasons ...

... but we had

the office lunch ...

... so I took everybody, my

people out to lunch and ...

... left them there.

We were surprised by the reaction

that we got from the ERT that day.

He went often

to a room and ...

... talked about that aparently

and decided to leave.

What we did was that

we used ERT press lists.

We faxed press release

to the international media.

We expected that the

occupation of this ...

... very shadowed

but a powerfull ...

... business lobby group would

really interest thet media.

But things were

a little bit different.

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