Combined Summary of Findings -Fall 2003

The combined findings of the seven investigative reports indicate that there are scores of European organizations present in the greater northern New Jersey and Manhattan area. Each of the seven reports is based upon interviews with someone employed at each of the several organizations investigated by each team. The trends generated by these reports, when their findings are combined suggest the following about the presence and role of such European organizations:

1. Five of the seven teams (Banking and Finance, Commercial Corporations, Media, NGO’s, and Trade Monitoring) found the following:

a. individuals interviewed did not think of themselves as representing a European organization.

b. those interviewed did not believe that their organization had a mission that was essentially ‘European’ or ‘national’ in character.

c. those interviewed believed that their organizations were primarily motivated by the desire to provide a useful and desirable product or service to the part of the commercial marketplace in which they operated. The teams characterized the organizational perspective as ‘global’ in nature, rather than rooted in any one country or region. This finding, in combination with the above findings (a and b) brought into question the view that organizations from Europe necessarily should be seen as actively representing Europe or one of its countries in the American setting.

4. Two of the seven teams (Art And Culture, and Governmental Representatives) found the following:

a. individuals interviewed did think of themselves as representing a European organization.

b. individuals interviewed did think that their organization had a mission that was essentially ‘European’ or a ‘European/national’ in character.

c. in summary, governmental and cultural organizations specifically, perhaps by virture of their ‘public’ or ‘educational’ missions would act consciously as a European presence with a ‘European agenda’ in their American setting.