Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-14-Speech-3-096"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030514.3.3-096"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-14-Speech-3-0972
lpv:speaker	lp:Patricia McKENNA2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, a Bilderberg meeting will open in Versailles tomorrow. The reason I raise this issue is that a number of Commissioners - Monti, Liikanen, Solbes Mira, Verheugen, Vitorino and Bolkestein have all in the past attended Bilderberg meetings. Indeed, Commissioner Prodi was actually a steering committee member in the eighties at the same time as Wim Duisenberg was the treasurer of Bilderberg. Another reason I have raised this issue is that I have submitted a priority written question through Parliament but whenever I raise the issue of Bilderberg I am sent from pillar to post. I should have had a reply on 25 April but still have not received one. The Bilderberg meeting is starting at the weekend. When I have tried to put an oral question in this Parliament or in the last one, the Commissioners have basically been afraid to answer. What I really want to know is whether the Commissioners attend these meetings in their own private capacity or whether they are representing the Commission. If they are representing the Commission, we need to know what happens at these Bilderberg meetings because at the end of the day this is a secret organisation which is deciding global policy without any input from the public. It is about time the doors of Bilderberg were opened and the public really knew what goes on, because most of the major players in the world today are all playing a part in Bilderberg. The President of this Parliament, Mr Cox, actually attended one of these meetings in Sweden a couple of years ago. The people need to know what happens at the Bilderberg meetings, and if I ask a question in good time the Commission should answer that question. There is no justification for the Commission not to answer it."@en1
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