Bilderberg Group
The Bilderberg Group
1. Introduction
Today there are many different associations having conferences about important economic and political issues facing the western world. One of the most influential, powerful and unknown is the Bilderberg Group. The Bilderberg Group consists of different types of “members”, those ones who build the core of the Group -the permanent members and those who vary and are invited to annual meetings often only once in their lives. People who attend the meeting are not randomly selected, but are rather selected by the core members. Those attendees come from differing important fields whether industry, finance, military, media or politics. Even though Bilderberg meetings have been taking place since 1954 once a year hosting the most important and best known personalities in the world, most people don´t know about these special conferences that are „designed to foster the dialogue between Europe and North America“ as mentioned on the official website (www.bilderbergmeetings.org) In this essay I will try to give introductory information why only so few people know about the Bilderberg Group, what the Bilderberg Group actually is and does, which personalities are invited or attend the meetings as well as possible consequences might appear to people invited regarding their future career and influence. For me several questions came up when I was told about the Bilderbergers the first time. For example how comes that such a powerful and influential Group is barely known by the common public or why do the Bilderbergers actually meet in secrecy apart from the press? Shouldn´t the public be allowed to know what the most powerful people in the world and eventually the public’s own national representatives are talking about? Does a person really elect the heads of their government and their party themselves or are they possibly “pre-selected” as a result of the Bilderberg meetings and then proudly “provided” as potential candidates to be
1. Introduction
Today there are many different associations having conferences about important economic and political issues facing the western world. One of the most influential, powerful and unknown is the Bilderberg Group. The Bilderberg Group consists of different types of “members”, those ones who build the core of the Group -the permanent members and those who vary and are invited to annual meetings often only once in their lives. People who attend the meeting are not randomly selected, but are rather selected by the core members. Those attendees come from differing important fields whether industry, finance, military, media or politics. Even though Bilderberg meetings have been taking place since 1954 once a year hosting the most important and best known personalities in the world, most people don´t know about these special conferences that are „designed to foster the dialogue between Europe and North America“ as mentioned on the official website (www.bilderbergmeetings.org) In this essay I will try to give introductory information why only so few people know about the Bilderberg Group, what the Bilderberg Group actually is and does, which personalities are invited or attend the meetings as well as possible consequences might appear to people invited regarding their future career and influence. For me several questions came up when I was told about the Bilderbergers the first time. For example how comes that such a powerful and influential Group is barely known by the common public or why do the Bilderbergers actually meet in secrecy apart from the press? Shouldn´t the public be allowed to know what the most powerful people in the world and eventually the public’s own national representatives are talking about? Does a person really elect the heads of their government and their party themselves or are they possibly “pre-selected” as a result of the Bilderberg meetings and then proudly “provided” as potential candidates to be