Τα παιδιά της Trilateral

Λόγω επικαιρότητας και φυσικά περιέργειας, κάθισα και έψαξα τη μακροσκελή λίστα των μελών της Trilateral Commission, για να δω τι μέρος του λόγου είναι, όπως και για το πώς πολιτικά πρόσωπα μπορεί να διασυνδέονται με τον τραπεζικό ή βιομηχανικό τομέα.

Για να πάρετε μια γεύση παραθέτω ένα μέρος των μελών, και μόνο από την ευρωπαϊκή λίστα. Αν έψαχνα και την Βορειοαμερικανική και τη Γιαπωνέζικη, θα ξημερωνόμουν.

Η κίτρινη υπογράμμιση δείχνει το όνομα του μέλους. Η πράσινη, την θητεία του στο βιομηχανικό ή τραπεζικό τομέα, και η γαλάζια, την πολιτική θέση στην οποία υπηρέτησε. Στο τέλος, θα δείτε ποιες εφημερίδες, στην πλειοψηφία τους ευρωπαϊκές, συμμετέχουν στην εν λόγω επιτροπή, για να φυλαγόμαστε…

*Esko Aho, Executive Vice President, Nokia, Helsinki; former Prime Minister of Finland

*Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, CNP Assurances, (ένας από τους μεγαλύτερους ιδιωτικούς ασφαλιστικούς οργανισμούς του κόσμου, μέλος της λιστα των 500 του Fortune), Paris; former Chairman, Electricité de France (EDF); former Minister of the Economy and Finance

*Marek Belka, President, National Bank of Poland, Warsaw; former Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C.; former Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Geneva; former Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland; former Ambassador-at-Large and Chairman, Council for International Coordination, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad

* Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden; former Chairman, Kreab Group of public affairs companies; former Chairman, Nordic Venture Network, Stockholm; former Member of the Swedish Parliament, Chairman of the Moderate Party and Prime Minister of Sweden; former European Union High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina & UN Special Envoy to the Balkans

* Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman, UBS Investment Bank, London; Trade Adviser to the Prime Minister; former Vice President, European Commission

* François Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Senior International Adviser, Citi France; Former Chairman, Citi France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States

* Jürgen Chrobog, Chairman, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt, Berlin; former German Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States

* Luc Coene, Minister of State; Deputy Governor, National Bank of Belgium, Brussel

*Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, Dublin; Member of Senate, Republic of Ireland

* Vladimir Dlouhy, (αυτός κι αν είναι!) International Advisor, Goldman Sachs; former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former Czech Minister of Industry & Trade, Prague; European Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission

* Louise Fresco, University Professor, University of Amsterdam; Member of the Board of non-executive Directors, RABO Bank, Utrecht; former Assistant Director-General, Head of Agriculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rom

* Hugh Friel, Chairman, Tourism Ireland; former Chief Executive Officer, Kerry Group, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland

* General The Lord Guthrie, Former Director, N M Rothschild & Sons, London; Member of the House of Lords; former Chief of the Defence Staff, London

* Wolfgang Ischinger, Global Head of Government Relations, Allianz SE, Munich; Chairman, The Munich Security Conference on Security Policy; former European Member of the Troïka on the Kosovo Status Determination; former German Deputy Foreign Minister and former German Ambassador to the United States and to the United Kingdom

* Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc; Member of the House of Lords, London; former British Ambassador to the United States; former Secretary General, European Convention; Chairman of the Advisory Group to the Trilateral Commission (Europe)

* Kurt Lauk, Former Member of the European Parliament (EPP Group-CDU); Chairman, Globe Capital Partners, Stuttgart; President, Economic Council of the CDU Party, Berlin; Former Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart

* Abel Matutes, Chairman, Empresas Matutes Group, Ibiza; former Member of the European Commission, Brussels; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madrid

* Lord Mandelson, Member of the House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel; Senior Advisor, Lazard; former European Trade Commissioner; former First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the UK; former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Former Trade and Industry Secretary in the UK

*Andrzej Olechowski, Founder, Civic Platform; former Chairman, Bank Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw

* H. Onno Ruding, Chairman, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels; former Vice Chairman, Citibank; former Dutch Minister of Finance

*Peter Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Chairman of the London School of Economics; UN Special Representative for Migration and Development; former Chairman, BP p.l.c.; former Director General, GATT/WTO; former Member of the European Commission; former Attorney General of Ireland; Honorary European Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Εδώ βαρέθηκα και σταμάτησα την καταγραφή. Άλλωστε, το μήνυμα πρέπει να ελήφθη.

Από το χώρο του τύπου συμμετέχουν οι κάτωθι εκδότες / διευθυντές κλπ:

Financial Times,

El Pais,

Καθημερινή, μέσω Παπαχελά,

Corriere della Sera,

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,

Politiken of Copenhagen

New York Times

The Wall Street Journal

Letras Libres Magazine, and Director, Clio TV, Mexico City

The Globe and Mail, Toronto

The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo

Δεν πήρε το μάτι μου κάποια γαλλική εφημερίδα. Μπορεί ο Παπαχελάς να έρχεται από μια χώρα-πορδή, αλλά το τσουτσούνι του όπου βρει το χώνει..