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In an interview for zougla.gr, the former chairman of the Union of Greek Industrialists Odysseas Kyriakopoulos, who took part in the Commission's last meeting in The Hague last weekend, said that several Greeks had been invited to attend it and that Mario Monti and Lucas Papademos were not present at the meeting because they had assumed the governments of their countries, Italy and Greece. "Alexis Papahelas did not come, apparently because of the political developments in Athens," said Odysseas Kyriakopoulos.

The Australian academic Sharon Beder writes in her book Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda:

"The Trilateral Commission is an example of the way in which business networks can incorporate high-level government leaders and officials within their coalitions as allies against democracy. It was established in order to ‘mould’ public policy at a time when democracy posed a particularly vexing problem for corporations."
 
After many years and following the election of Barack Obama, Western societies are returning to the scene of the clash between political and non-political mechanisms, which are currently represented by the banking sector. Europe is solving the problem with a delay. America is ahead of it. The outcome is uncertain, said in conclusion the author of the article in zougla.gr.