Reed Elesvier Chairman head of ERT

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Tabaksblat now chairman of Reed Elsevier was former head of Unilever

>From Financial Times.

FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Industry urges faster EU reform GROUP SAYS
HEADS OF STATE HAVE FAILED TO DELIVER ON COMPETITIVENESS AFTER LISBON
SUMMIT: 
                     
Financial Times; Mar 20, 2001
                     
By PAUL BETTS and BRIAN GROOM      

snippet from article:     

The European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT), grouping 46 of Europe's
top business leaders, sent 10 recommendations to the European Union heads
of state expressing alarm at Europe's continuing skills shortage, lack of
progress in completing the internal market and failure to reform European
pension systems.

Morris Tabaksblat, ERT chairman and chairman of Reed Elsevier, the
Anglo-Dutch publishing group, said Stockholm represented a "litmus test"
of commitments made by governments in Lisbon last year to turn Europe into
the "most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world".

Also see:

INSIDE TRACK: The quiet knights of Europe's round table: EUROPEAN
LOBBYING: A secretive group of influential industrialists sets out grand
visions of the Continent and seeks to influence the thinking of political
leaders, writes Paul Betts

Financial Times; Mar 20, 2001 By PAUL BETTS, which discusses the impact of
the group on European policy directions, and its history.

Officials in Brussels concede that the ERT can claim much of the credit
for providing the initial impetus that led to the European single market
in 1992.

Nota bene:
I don't know how long Reed Elsvier has been involved with ERT.