For george w. Bush Steven Hadley now with the atlantic counsel. Well have opening remarks and then switch over to the executive vice chair. I would like to extend a few thanks to some of our partners here with us today, penny, michael margolis, thank you very much. Without further ado, ill turn it over to you. Well, thank you, julia, and my thanks, also to steve hadley for moderating the discussion. Congratulations to the Atlantic Council for the opening of the center for geoeconomics. After having looked at your goals, its an extremely timely undertaking. More broadly now more than ever, the Atlantic Councils mission of a strange transatlantic relationship. Covid19 has affected our way of life. As a look to the future, that the right values guide us in a postcovid world. Thats why the transatlantic relationship so important. It represents over 40 of the worlds gdp and nearly half of global personal consumption. But it is about much more than the economy. It is a community of values th
Studded with prominent names from United States President Donald Trump on one side of the atlantic to germanys deutsche of bunk on the other it seems to have complied with rules to report suspicious transactions but took few steps to rein them in our topic Money Laundering all guards terrorists how corrupt are the banks. Welcome to to the point its a pleasure to introduce our guests Daniel Drucker is editor in chief of buzz feed news germany and he says the suspicious activity records give banks a free pass to keep moving dirty money then collect the fees. And its a pleasure to welcome our few carnatic to the program hes chief europe correspondent for politico and he believes this councils are just the latest indication that germanys Banking Sector is neither financially nor culturally sound. And great to have with us as well then to lena fun period oh she works for the british economist and she thinks justice do much of it was finally starting to recover the revelations related to its
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A real you know baked in incentive to go after what you know happening in the 3rd world so lets talk about europes incentive because in fact the European Commission has had quite a bit to say on Money Laundering in the last few years claims to want to do a great deal more to crack down and yet the worlds tax havens including to some leading European Centers like the netherlands switzerland ireland lexan borg play a huge role in the machinery of the Money Laundering system so clearly this is an area where we need a true european approach also a global approach but how likely are we to get that at a time where in essence were seeing d. Globalization and a retreat from multilateralism well in europe its also worth remembering that John Klobuchar who was president of the European Commission was also the finance minister and Prime Minister of luxembourg for 20 years and oversaw many of these. Activities up until 2014 when he became the president of the European Commission and that didnt hal