arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)
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nice people on the European Business summit by guido Thursday May 30, 2002 at 05:13 PM |
| http://www.ebsummit.org/speakerview.cfm?ID=36 |
At this time, in Washington Dc, the Bilderbergers have their yearly meeting. A lobbygroup of powerfull people like the Queen of the Netherlands. Two years ago, UNICE and Bilderberg had their meetings at the same time on different places in Brussels. People did only protest against Unice. The chairman of Bilderberg is invited to speak on the European Business Summit. Here is his little biography, he's a Belgian crocodile.
Viscount Etienne Davignon (B),
Chairman of Advisory Board of CSR Europe
In 1959, Mr. Davignon joined the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was Head of the Cabinets of Ministers Spaak and Harmel. From 1969 he was responsible for the Political Department of the Ministry until his departure in 1977 when he joined the EEC. During his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was directly involved with Belgium's policies in Africa, the independence of Ruanda and Burundi and the solution to the Belgium and Zaïre conflict. He was also a key figure behind the report on the future of the Atlantic Alliance (Harmel report) and he presided the committee which prepared the first proposals regarding political cooperation between EEC members (Davignon report) : 1974-1975. Following the oil crisis in 1973, Mr. Davignon chaired the International Conference which established an oil sharing treaty. From 1974 to 1977, he was the first President of the International Energy Agency created November 18, 1974. After leaving the civil service in 1977, Mr. Davignon was appointed Vice President of the EEC, in charge of industry, research and energy up until the end of 1984. During this period he was active in the restructuring of European industry (steel, textiles, synthetic fibres) and promoting new research cooperative ventures in Information Technology and Telecommunication (Esprit, Race). He negotiated on behalf of the EEC, key agreements with the US, Japan and China. In the beginning of 1985 he joined Société Générale de Belgique, Belgium's leading holding company of which he became Chairman on the 11th April 1989. He serves as Vice-Chairman since 28th February 2001. Mr. Davignon is a member of the Board of Suez, BASF, ICL, Anglo American, Sofina, Solvay, Royal Sporting Club of Anderlecht and several S.G.B. group companies and is Vice-Chairman of Fortis and Tractebel. He became Chairman of the Association for the Monetary Union of Europe on May 30, 1991. He is a Chairman of the Paul-Henri Spaak Foundation, the Royal Institute for International Relations, the "Palais des Beaux-Arts" and the Bilderberg Meetings. He is Chairman of the "Advisory Board" of "CSR Europe".
Website : http://www.csreurope.org