In an official response to legally binding parliamentary questions on his 2013 Bilderberg attendance, Mark Rutte hid behind Bilderberg’s Chatham House Rule while admitting the Dutch taxpayer is left with the bill for his expenses.
Answering parliamentary questions, Dutch P.M Mark Rutte refused to disclose information about his participation in the 2013 Bilderberg meeting in the UK. Citing Bilderberg’s official excuse for its long-time secrecy, the Chatham House Rule, Rutte deflected all requests for details about the meeting.
Published on the government’s official website, the Prime-Minister disclosed nothing in regards to the details pertaining to the meeting or what was discussed. He did however disclose that the Dutch taxpayer was good for the costs of his attendance.
David Cameron, George Osborne and Ed Balls from the British Government were also among those to attend the clandestine organizations meeting.
The Bilderberg Group organizes an annual private conference of approximately 120 to 140 invited guests from North America and Europe, most of whom are people of influence . About one-third are from government and politics, and two-thirds from finance, industry, labour, education and communications.
This conservative group gets its name from its first meeting, held from 29 to 31 May 1954 at the Hotel Bilderbeek in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands. The idea of such a conference was initiated by several people, including Polish politician-in-exile Józef Retinger, Prins Bernhard of the Netherlands, Walter Bedell Smith then head of the CIA and US President Eisenhower's adviser Charles Douglas Jackson, who were all concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe.
They proposed an international conference at which leaders from European countries and the United States would be brought together with the aim of promoting "Atlanticism" – better understanding between the cultures of the United States and Western Europe and to foster cooperation on political, economic, and defense issues.
The success of this first meeting led the organizers to arrange an annual conference since then in Europe and the US.
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