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  • Elite power brokers' secret talks [hey Bilderberger fans pre G7 meeting]

    05/23/2003 3:40:30 PM PDT · by ex-snook · 10 replies · 251+ views
    BBC ^ | may 15, 2003 | Emma Jane Kirby
    Elite power brokers' secret talks By Emma Jane Kirby BBC correspondent in Paris The world's financial and political elite are to hold a closed meeting in France on Thursday where delegates are expected to be focusing their attention on post war Iraq. The Bilderberg meeting will be held in Versailles just before the start of the Group of Seven meeting of finance ministers in nearby Paris. Bilderberg, which was founded in the 1950s by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, is said to steer international policy from behind closed doors. Its critics say that it is a capitalist organisation which...
  • EU, Asian Heads Talk Global Terror

    07/05/2002 1:51:07 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 1 replies · 153+ views
    Europe Daily ^ | July 05 2002 | AP
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — When European and Asian finance ministers first gathered for talks five years ago, their main focus was on rebuilding the wounded Asian tiger economies. This time, another crisis tops the agenda: global terrorism. Officials from the 15 European Union countries and 10 Asian nations were meeting Friday and Saturday at a former warehouse turned Danish Foreign Ministry annex on the Copenhagen harbor. Joining them are EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Pedro Solbes and top officials of the Asian Development Bank, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In his opening remarks, Danish Finance...