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unofficial, about 130 participants, most of whom are influential in the economic field ,
The Bilderberg Group (also known as the Bilderberg conference or Bilderberg club) is a meeting annual, invitation
political and banking . The participants cover a wide variety of global issues, economic, military and political.
The group meets annually in hotel or luxury resorts in various parts of the world, normally in Europe ,
and once every four years in United States or Canada . He has an office in Leiden in Netherlands. [1]
The meeting of 2009 took place May 14 to 16 to Athens in Greece .
Given that the discussions during this conference are never reported or recorded outside
these meetings have been subject to criticism and also the subject of various conspiracy theories .
The Bilderberg group has long been suspected by some to be a secret society [2]
type Masonic .
Story of the Bilderberg Group
Many participants in the Bilderberg group are heads of state, ministers and other politicians of the Treasury ' EU
(also' Former President del Consiglio italiano Romano Prodi avrebbe partecipato a qualche meeting),
ma prevalentemente i membri sono esponenti di spicco dell'alta finanza europea e anglo-americana.
Oggigiorno si distinguono i partecipanti in diverse categorie, ma principalmente in due: coloro che
sono membri permanenti dell'organizzazione e coloro che possono essere invitati come spettatori
o relatori. [3] Tra i relatori ricorrenti ci sono alcuni giornalisti dell' Economist . [4] [5] [6] Negli anni cinquanta
the organization has one hundred members.
In May 2000, the Bilderberg Group has been established, during a discussion at the European Parliament
as a "reflection group policy trends decidedly conservative." [7]
Promoters of the Bilderberg Group
Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld , chairman of the Bilderberg until in 1976
resigned over the scandal of a bribe by $ 1.1 million from the Lockheed Corporation for the sale of fighter jets aviation
olandese.Tra the promoters of the group are:
First meeting in May 1954
At the first meeting that took place 29 to 31 May 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek
(in Netherlands), took part in about a hundred bankers, politicians, academics, international officials.
apparently included among such personalities [8] : Heads of Government of Belgium and Italian Paul van Zeeland
and Alcide De Gasperi , Denis Healey and Hugh Gaitskell the Labour Party English, Robert Boothby
of the Conservative Party .
According to journalists who attended the meetings of the group, after the 1976 took over the presidency
David Rockefeller, a founder member of the Trilateral Commission , a member of the Commission
International Banking, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations , a member of the Club of Rome
and numerous other international organizations.
Other prominent members of the organization are or were: Giovanni Agnelli ; Donald Rumsfeld;
Peter Sutherland, Ireland, former European Union commissioner and chairman of Goldman Sachs
and British Petroleum ; Paul Wolfowitz former World Bank president, Roger Boothe .
The current president of the group is Etienne Davignon. Among the characters
alla riunione del 1999 venivano citati dal Corriere della Sera :
Umberto Agnelli , Henry Kissinger , Mario Monti .
Due terzi dei membri dell'assemblea sarebbero americani. Al vertice di Stresa del 2004
si contarono 33 delegati americani e 16 italiani (seconda rappresentanza più numerosa).
I partecipanti sono tenuti a non parlare né di quanto detto nelle riunioni né della loro presenza.
Come per la Trilaterale , è nota la lista di una parte dei membri, riconosciuti da giornalisti che
sono venuti a conoscenza ed hanno Following the various leaders of the Bilderberg.
Case Diamandouros
The confidentiality of the meetings of the Bilderberg has remained relatively intact until the
European Parliament, in the last weeks of 2004, rose to prominence in the case Diamandouros.
occasion of the re-election of greek Nikiforos Diamandouros in the office of the Ombudsman , the so-called
ombudsman, was challenged Diamandouros the membership of the Bilderberg Group:
"This powerful lobby aims to earn a place in the institutions of 'European Union
for the benefit of its members and is structured with the mechanism of the secrecy which
absolute obligation of States. Who wants to be the European Ombudsman can not boast the participation
as a member of a lobby. Diamandouros has even participated in a special
Bilderberg conference as a member while he was greek Ombudsman ' (intervention Giuseppe Fortunato ) .
Meeting 2006 in Kanata, Ontario [edit ]
One of the last meeting took place from 8 to 11 June 2006 in Kanata Ontario (near Ottawa )
at the Brookstreet Hotel , closed to the public for the occasion. An official press release has
explained that the themes of the meeting were "euro-American relations, energy, Russia, the 'Iran ,
the Middle East, the' Asia , terrorism and immigration. "
Participants David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger , Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands , Richard Perle,
leaders Federal Reserve Bank of Credit Suisse and Rothschild Europe
(Vice-President Franco Bernabe ), the oil companies Shell, BP and ENI (Paolo Scaroni )
of Coca Cola of Philips, Unilever's of Time Warner of AoL, the Thyssen-Krupp ,
of Fiat (Vice President John Elkann ) heads and corresponding Times of London,
the Wall Street Journal , the Financial Times , 's International Herald Tribune, Le Figaro of ,
del Globe and Mail , del Die Zeit , rappresentanti della NATO , dell' ONU , della Banca Mondiale
e della UE , economisti e molti ministri dei governi occidentali.
Le misure di sicurezza sono state imponenti, e tutta la zona era presidiata. Alla riunione
del 2006 hanno partecipato, tra gli altri, gli italiani:
Meeting 2007 in Istanbul ( Turkey)
Between May 31 and June 3, 2007 The meeting was held in Istanbul (Turkey).
This meeting was attended by the following Italian members:
- Franco Bernabe, CEO of Telecom Italy
- John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat SpA
- Mario Monti , President of Bocconi University
- Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti
- , Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies