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BusinessEurope
After the ERT, this is one of the most influential lobby organisations in
Europe and one which draws up draft legislations, among other things.
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BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
(Land Use and Administration Company) German state-owned,
private real-estate company which has been selling off fields, meadows,
forests and lakes in Eastern Germany to the highest bidder since 1992.
The legal basis for its activities is the Treuhand Act of June 17, 1990,
which regulates, inter alia, the essential details pertaining to the
privatisation of land; successor organisation to the Treuhand Agency,
set up in 1990 as a public institution for adapting the state corporations
of the former GDR to the standards observed in the BRD.
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Carlyle
The Washington D.C.-based Carlyle Group is a global private-equity
investment firm and one of the “locusts”, with more than US$84∙5
billion of equity capital under management, diversified over 64
different funds as of March 31, 2009. In the past, the firm employed
political figures and notable investors, including former U.S. President
George H. W. Bush, former British Prime Minister John Major, former
U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III and George Soros.
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Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Founded by David Rockefeller in 1921; exerts a decisive influence on
world politics and EU foreign policy.
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DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft
(German Investment and Development Association) Limited company,
founded in 1962 as a subsidiary of the KFW Banking Group; concentrates
on the implementation, structuring and financing of private-enterprise
interests in both developing and developed countries.
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