The European Round Table of Industrialists, abbreviated ERT, is an advocacy group in the

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consisting of some 50 European industrial leaders working to strengthen

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. The group works at both national and European levels.

History

The roots of the European Round Table of Industrialists date back to the early 1980s. The European economy at that time, was regarded as suffering from eurosclerosis, which was perceived as a lack of dynamism,

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and

competitive Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indivi ...

ness when compared with the economies of Japan and the

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. The negative economic consequences of the competitive situation worried several leading European businesspeople. At the initiative of Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, the CEO of

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, 17 European businessmen met in the

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boardroom of Volvo on 6 and 7 April 1983. They envisioned to create an organisation, which would be able to convey its message about the state of the economy to the European political leaders. The core message was that Europe needed to modernise its industrial bases in order to regain its competitiveness. The industry perceived a lack of a common European industrial development policy, in contrast to the European agricultural policy. The meeting in Paris was attended by Pehr G. Gyllenhammar (Volvo),

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(Thyssen), Carlo De Benedetti (Olivetti),

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(ASEA), Harry Gray (United Technologies), John Harvey - Jones (ICI),

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( Siemens),

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( Fiat), Peter Baxendell (

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), Olivier Lecerf ( Lafarge Coppée),

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(Cie de St Gobain),

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(BSN),

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(

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), Louis von Planta (

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) and Helmut Maucher (

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). Both

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and

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from the

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attended the meeting. At the second meeting, on 1 June 1983 in

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, the ERT organisation was established, its charter accepted and the necessary financial arrangements were made. The goal of the ERT would be to promote competition and competitiveness on a European scale. At the outset, the group played an important role in the planning of the Oresund Bridge between

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and Sweden as part of its ''European Link'' project on improvements to the European infrastructure. This project also included several other international European infrastructural projects e.g. the Fehmarn Belt Bridge between

and

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. Later on the ERT became active in the promotion of the earliest

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. The ERT's busiest decade was 1988 to 1998 under different chairmen: Wisse Dekker (

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), Jérôme Monod (

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) and Helmut Maucher ( Switzerland) with Keith Richardson as secretary general. During this time the ERT published influential reports in the domains of Internal Market, Infrastructure, Education, Environment,

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, Competitiveness, Job Creation and tax issues. The ERT fostered direct government-industry consultation at many different levels. Its active role in encouraging the first global G8 cooperation on building common standards for the

was recognised by several country leaders, including President

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. From early on, ERT policy supported EU enlargement. It promoted and often led business dialogues between the EU and business circles in the US and in Japan as well as in developing countries. The ERT gave an early lead in presenting positive contributions to the climate change debate, and control carbon emissions. Two more recent areas for ERT contribution are pensions and international standards.

Chairmen

* 1983 - 1988: Pehr G. Gyllenhammar (

) * 1988 - 1992:

(

) * 1992 - 1996: Jérôme Monod ( Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux) * 1996 - 1999: Helmut Maucher (

) * 1999 - 2001:

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(

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) * 2001 - 2005: Gerhard Cromme (

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) * 2005 - 2009:

Jorma Ollila Jorma Jaakko Ollila CBE (born 15 August 1950) is a Finnish businessman who was chairman of Royal Dutch Shell from 1 June 2006 to May 2015, and at Nokia Corporation chairman from 1999 to 2012 and CEO from 1992 to 2006. He has been a director of ...

(

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, i ...

) * 2009 - 2014: Leif Johansson (

Ericsson (lit. "Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson"), commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in informa ...

) * 2014 - 2018: Benoît Potier (

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) * Since 2018:

Carl-Henric Svanberg Carl-Henric Svanberg (born 29 May 1952), is a Swedish businessman and current Chairman of Volvo. He was Chairman of BP for eight years, from 2010 to 2018. Life and career Svanberg holds a master's degree in applied physics from the Linköping ...

(

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)

List of current members 2021

* Hilde Merete Aasheim (

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) * Dolf van den Brink (

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) * Jean-Paul Agon (

L'Oréal L'Oréal S.A. () is a French personal care company headquartered in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine with a registered office in Paris. It is the world's largest cosmetics company and has developed activities in the field concentrating on hair color, ...

) * Zoltán Áldott ( MOL) * José Álvarez-Pallete (

Telefónica Telefónica, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world. It provides fixed and mobile telephony, broadba ...

) * Nils S. Andersen (

AkzoNobel Akzo Nobel N.V., stylized as AkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational company which creates paints and performance coatings for both industry and consumers worldwide. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company has activities in more than 80 countries ...

) * Paulo Azevedo (

Sonae Sonae is a multinational business group based in Maia, Porto District, Portugal. It is present in 90 countries, operating in several sectors, including retail, financial services, shopping centres management, software and information systems, ...

) * Guido Barilla ( Barilla S.p.A.) *

Martin Brudermüller Martin Brudermüller (born 1961) is a German businessman, and the CEO of BASF since 2018. Early life Brudermüller was born in Stuttgart in 1961. He earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany ...

(

BASF BASF SE () is a German multinational chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. Its headquarters is located in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries ...

) *

Paul Bulcke Paul Bulcke (born 8 September 1954) is a Belgian businessman who is the chairman and former CEO of Nestlé. Early life He graduated as a commercial engineer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and is an alumnus of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Man ...

(

) *

Jean-Pierre Clamadieu Jean-Pierre Clamadieu (born 15 August 1958) is a French businessman. Clamadieu has been the Chairman of Engie since May 2018 and a former chief executive officer of Solvay and member of the board of directors from May 2012 to March 2019. He serv ...

(

ENGIE Engie SA is a French multinational utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbevoie, which operates in the fields of energy transition, electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear, renewable energy and petroleum. It ...

) * Ian Davis (

Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce (always hyphenated) may refer to: * Rolls-Royce Limited, a British manufacturer of cars and later aero engines, founded in 1906, now defunct Automobiles * Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the current car manufacturing company incorporated in ...

) * Rodolfo De Benedetti ( CIR) * Pierre-André de Chalendar (

Saint-Gobain Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. () is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, at La Défense and in Courbevoie. Originally a mirror manufacturer, it now also produces a variety of ...

) * Rafael del Pino (

Ferrovial Ferrovial, S.A. (), previously Grupo Ferrovial, is a Spanish multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of transport infrastructure and urban services. It is a publicly traded company ...

) *

Claudio Descalzi Claudio Descalzi (born 1955) is an Italian businessman, CEO of Eni since May 2014. Education Claudio Descalzi graduated in Physics at the University of Milan in 1979. Career Descalzi started to work at Eni in 1981, when he joined the multinat ...

( Eni) *Stefan Doboczky (

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) *

Henrik Ehrnrooth Henrik Göran Casimir Ehrnrooth (born 7 July 1954 in Helsinki) is a Finnish economist, manager and investor. He has been CEO and President at KONE since April 2014. Previously he served as KONE's CFO between 2009–2014. Prior to his career at KONE, ...

(

KONE Kone Oyj (; officially stylized as KONE and trading as KONE Corporation) is an elevator engineering company employing over 60,000 personnel across 60 countries worldwide. It was founded in 1910 and is now headquartered in Espoo near Helsinki, F ...

) *

Börje Ekholm Börje Ekholm (born 1963) is a Swedish business executive who is the chief executive officer of Ericsson, and has been since January 16, 2017. Prior to his appointment, he was chief executive officer of Patricia Industries, and from 2005 to 2015 h ...

(

) * Christoph Franz ( F. Hoffmann-La Roche) * Ignacio S. Galán (

Iberdrola Iberdrola () is a Spanish multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Spain. Iberdrola has a workforce of around 34,000 employees serving around 31.67 million customers. Subsidiaries include Scottish Power (United Kingdom) ...

) *

Paul Hermelin Paul Hermelin (born April 30, 1952) is the chairman of Capgemini. Early life and education Hermelin graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1972 and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in 1978. Career Hermelin spent the second f ...

(

Capgemini Capgemini SE is a multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, headquartered in Paris, France. History Capgemini was founded by Serge Kampf in 1967 as an enterprise management and data processing company. The comp ...

) * Timotheus Höttges ( Deutsche Telekom) * Pablo Isla (

Inditex Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex; , ; ) is a Spanish multinational clothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia, in Spain. Inditex, the biggest fast fashion group in the world, operates over 7,200 stores in 93 markets worldwide. ...

) * Simon Thompson (

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) * Jan Jenisch ( LafargeHolcim) * Leif Johansson (

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) *

Ilham Kadri Ilham Kadri (born 1969) is a Moroccan business executive with a scientific background. Since March 1, 2019, she has been the CEO, chairwoman of the executive committee and a member of the Board of Directors of Solvay, a Belgian chemicals company. ...

(

Solvay Solvay may refer to: Companies and organizations * Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Brussels, Belgium * Solvay Conference, founded by Ernest Solvay, deals with open questions in physics and chemistry * Solvay Indupa, an Argen ...

) *

Ola Källenius Sten Ola Källenius (born 11 June 1969) is a Swedish business executive. He is the chairman of the board of management of Mercedes-Benz Group, and CEO of Mercedes-Benz. He is the first non-German in both positions. Education Källenius graduat ...

( Daimler) * Christian Klein (

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) * Joe Kaeser ( Siemens) * Thomas Leysen (

Umicore Umicore N.V.. formerly '' Union Minière'', is a multinational materials technology company headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Formed in 1989 by the merger of four companies in the mining and smelting industries, Umicore has since reshaped ...

) *

Helge Lund Helge Lund (born 16 October 1962) is a Norwegian businessman who has been chairman of BP since January 2019, and chairman of the Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk since 2018. He is the former chief executive officer (CEO) of BG Group, Sta ...

( BP) *

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(

) * Martin Lundstedt (

) * Florent Menegaux ( Michelin) * Lakshmi N. Mittal (

ArcelorMittal ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourgian multinational steel manufacturing corporation headquartered in Luxembourg City. It was formed in 2006 from the takeover and merger of Arcelor by Indian-owned Mittal Steel. ArcelorMittal is the second la ...

) * Stefan Oschmann (

Merck Group The Merck Group, branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 60,000 employees and present in 66 countries. The group includes around 250 companies; the ma ...

) * Benoît Potier (

) *

Patrick Pouyanné Patrick Jean Pouyanné (born 24 June 1963) is a French engineer who has been serving as chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies since 2014. Early life and education Pouyanné was born in Petit-Quevilly in the region of Seine-Maritime in France. He s ...

(

TotalEnergies TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and one of the seven supermajor oil companies. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and ...

) *

Alessandro Profumo Alessandro Profumo, current CEO of Leonardo S.p.A. (formerly Finmeccanica), is an Italian manager in banking. He worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Bain and, when CEO of Unicredit, he was involved in the merger with HypoVereinsbank, Ban ...

( Leonardo S.p.A.) * Jean-François van Boxmeer (

Vodafone Group Vodafone Group plc () is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office and global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It predominantly operates services in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. , Vodafon ...

) * Stéphane Richard (

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) *

Gianfelice Rocca Gianfelice Rocca (born 2 March 1948) is an Italian billionaire businessman. He is chairman of the Techint Group and Istituto Clinico Humanitas. Education Rocca has a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Milan, and a PMD from the ...

(

Techint Techint is an Argentine conglomerate founded in Milan in 1945 by Italian industrialist Agostino Rocca and headquartered in Milan (Italy) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). As of 2019 the Techint Group is composed of six main companies in the followin ...

) *

Björn Rosengren Björn Folke Rosengren (born 14 April 1942) is a Swedish politician and advisor to the Stenbeck family. Rosengren was born in Täby. He was active in the labour union and as a Social Democratic politician. He served as chairman of the Swedish ...

(

ABB ABB Ltd. is a Swedish- Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. The company was formed in 1988 when Sweden's Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA) and Switzerland's Brown, Boveri & Cie merged to crea ...

) * Güler Sabancı (

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) * Søren Skou ( A.P. Møller-Mærsk) * Tony Smurfit ( Smurfit Kappa Group) *Jim H. Snabe ( Siemens) *Jonathan Symonds ( GlaxoSmithKline) * Johannes Teyssen ( E.ON) * Ben van Beurden (

Royal Dutch Shell Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New Yo ...

) * Frans van Houten ( Royal Philips) *

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(

Investor AB Investor AB is a Swedish investment and ''de facto'' conglomerate holding company. It was founded in 1916 and is still controlled by the Wallenberg family through their Foundation Asset Management company FAM. The company owns a controlling st ...

) *Peter Wennink (

ASML Holding ASML Holding N.V. (commonly shortened to ASML, originally standing for Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography) is a Dutch multinational corporation founded in 1984. ASML specializes in the development and manufacturing of photolithograph ...

) * Oliver Zipse ( BMW Group) (Source
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Critique of ERT

'' The Brussels Business - Who Runs the European Union'' is a 2013 documentary film by Friedrich Moser and Matthieu Lietaert which deals with the lack of transparency and the influence of

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s on the decision-making process in Brussels. ERT figures largely in the film as an organisation that has had the closest links with the reins of power in the EU, to the extent that certain EU reports, for instance those on European traffic networks, borrowed heavily from ERT reports. In a report by the former secretary general of the ERT, Keith Richardson, entitled ''

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and the European Agenda'', an ASEED Europe report called '' Misshaping Europe'' is quoted. The report was critical of the ERT's perceived success in influencing the European Commission:

References

* Cowles, M., G., ''Setting the agenda for a new Europe: the ERT and EC 1992'', In: Journal of Common Market Studies, 33, 1995, * Cowles, M., G., ''The rise of the European multinational'', In: International Economic Insights, 1993 * ERT, ''Will European governments in Barcelona keep their Lisbon promises?'', Message from the European Round Table of Industrialists to the Barcelona European Council, March 2002. Brussel, feb. 2002 * * Preston, M., E., ''The European commission and special interest groups'', In: Claeys, P.-H., Gobin, C., Smets, I., Lobbyisme, pluralisme et intégration Européenne. Brussel, Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes, 1998, *

External links

- European Round Table of Industrialists

- EuropeOnTrack

- Global Enterprise Project

- InGenious - European Coordinating Body in science, technology, engineering and maths education

- Initiative on Advancement of Women in Business
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