Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I. Corporate Europe -- 1. Welcome to Corporate Europe -- How Low Can You Go? -- The Restructuring of Corporate Europe -- Mergermania -- 2. Laying the Foundations: European PR Agencies and Think-Tanks -- Thriving in Brussels -- The Mechanics of PR -- Europe Here We Come! -- Pressure Politics -- Corporate Think-Tanks -- The Tip of the Iceberg -- 3. Writing the Script: The European Roundtable of Industrialists -- The ERT Unveiled -- The Founding Fathers -- Giving Birth to the Single Market -- Missing Links, Missing Networks -- The Maastricht Treaty and the EMU -- The ERT, Delors and the White Paper -- Turning Tides for Transnationals -- Relations with Santer -- CEOs at Work -- Current ERT Priorities -- Competitiveness Crusade -- Moving Eastward -- Innovation: Restructuring Europe -- Competitiveness Advisory Group: Doubling the ERT's Voice -- 4. UNICE: Industry's Well-oiled Lobby Machine -- The Role of UNICE -- Brussels Old Boys' Network -- Benchmarking Competitiveness -- The Single Market and EMU -- munautaire -- Taxes and Jobs -- Enlargement: the Bigger the Better -- Sir Leon's Groupies -- Absolute Monsters -- 5. AmCham Chimes in with the Brussels Corporate Choir -- The Corporate Choir -- A Lobbying Machine -- Pro Globalisation, Pro EU -- 6. Polishing the EMU: The Association for the Monetary Union of Europe -- The ERT's Financial Offspring -- Minting the Coin -- Putting EMU on Track -- Ensuring EMU -- The Euro is Born -- The AMUE's Tentacles Reach Abroad -- Single Market, Single Currency -- Euro 'Side-effects' -- 7. Doing Business in Amsterdam: The ERT, UNICE and the Treaty of Amsterdam -- The Intergovernmental Conference -- The Elite Troops -- A Host of Bureaucrats -- Getting the Structure Right -- Completing the Single Market -- Competitiveness, Jobs and the Environment.

New Markets in the East -- Speaking with One Voice -- Corporate Europe on the Amsterdam Treaty -- 8. Oiling the Wheels: Lobbying for European Transport Infrastructure -- Making the Blueprint -- Terrible TENs -- ECIS is Born -- ECIS Gets Busy -- Economic Benefits? -- Exit ECIS, Enter the Infrastructure Choir -- TENs: the EU Job Machine? -- The Alpine Barrier -- The Auto-Oil Programme -- Dealing with CO2 -- 9. Forcefeeding Europe: The Biotech Lobby -- EuropaBio: Boosting the Bioindustry -- EuropaBio's PR Strategy -- Industry and the EU Life Patents Directive: A Case Study -- EuropaBio Whispering Sweet Nothings -- Other Corporate Groupings -- SmithKline Beecham: Manufacturing Consensus -- Patient Interest Groups -- GIG and EAGS -- Can Europe Resist? -- Part II. Going Global -- 10. Globalisation: Corporate-led, EU-fed -- TEPtoeing Across the Atlantic -- Sinking the MAI -- Trading the World -- Democratic Gap -- Who Profits? -- 11. The Transatlantic Connection -- Killing the NTM? -- What's in the TEP? -- EU-US: Global Partners -- Public Procurement and Biotechnology -- US Government and Industry Ambitions -- Approved Once, Accepted Everywhere -- TABD Connections -- Old Friends Reunited -- Tackling Barriers -- 'Participation' in the TEP -- Transatlantic Dialogues: 'Greenwashing' the TEP? -- A Closer Look at the TABD -- Reclaiming Democracy -- 12. MAIgalomania: The Global Corporate Investment Agenda and the Citizens' Movement Opposing It -- Why the MAI? -- Informal Encounters -- What was in the MAI? -- Safeguarding Environment and Labour? -- Troubled Waters -- Public Explosion -- EU Business Leaves the Sinking MAI -- The Turning Tide -- Alternatives to the MAI -- 13. The WTO Millennium Bug: Corporate Control over Global Trade Politics -- The WTO is Born -- The WTO Shows its Teeth -- Industry's Beef with Consumers.

Massachusetts-Burma: Human Rights Objectives Overruled -- Corporate Involvement in WTO Negotiations -- Power TRIPs -- The Financial Services Agreement: Servicing the North -- The Millennium Round Offensive -- The Commission's Many Faces -- Business Attack for the Millennium Round -- Time Will Tell -- Part III. Planet Inc. -- 14. Landing on Planet Inc. -- 15. Global Elite Meetings: The Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission and the World Economic Forum -- The Bilderberg Group -- The Trilateral Commission -- The World Economic Forum -- 16. Exploiting Sustainability: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development -- Schmidheiny and Strong, Inc. -- Back to Business as Usual -- Five Years Later . . . -- Greener is Better? -- 17. The Weather Gods: Corporations Profit from Climate Change -- Profitable Solutions -- Climate Spoilers Around the World -- The USA: the Boldest Offensive -- International: Trading with Climate -- Hot Air: the European Corporate Lobby Groups -- UNICE: Fighting Binding Targets -- ERT: Sessions Behind Closed Doors -- CEFIC: Protecting HFCs -- Fighting Ecological Taxes -- Avoiding Regulation -- Climate Change: a Comeback for Nuclear Energy? -- Economic Globalisation versus Climate Policies -- 18. The Corporate Cooptation of the United Nations -- Forging a New Alliance -- Geneva Business Dialogue -- Managing Globalisation -- ICC-UN Cooperation in Practice -- Integrating Two Billion People into the Global Economy? -- Maucher's Ambitions -- Shared Vision? -- Maucher and His Critics -- Part IV. Challenging Corporate Power -- 19. Challenging Corporate Power -- The EU: a Corporate Lobbyist's Paradise -- Corporations out of Politics? -- Rolling Back Corporate Economic Power -- Turning the Tide -- Appendices -- 1. Navigating the Brussels Labyrinth: The European Union and its Institutions -- European Commission.

Council of Ministers -- European Council -- European Parliament -- 2. A Condensed History of the EU -- 3. ERT Members and their Companies -- 4. Resources -- Notes -- Index.