European Council on Foreign Relations

The European Council on Foreign Relations ( ECFR ) is a "think tank" that provides insights on issues of European foreign policy and it has set itself the goal to act as an advocate of a more coherent and stronger European foreign and security policy. ECFR was founded in 2007 by fifty prominent Europeans, including former heads of government and ministers, parliamentarians and intellectuals who advocate a strong role for Europe in the world. As the first pan-European think- tank of the ECFR has offices in seven European cities - Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Sofia and Warsaw. ECFR has no institutional ties to the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.

Office in Berlin

The German office of the ECFR, based in Berlin, was founded in October 2007 and was represented by the end of September 2013 by Ulrike Guérot. Bureau chief of the ECFR Berlin Olaf Boehnke. The focal point of the Berlin office is currently training the program " Germany in Europe ", to which the anthology "What does Germany " was created and in the context of which the philosopher Jürgen Habermas with the article " A Pact for or against Europe?" To word reported. The German office is a member of the European Movement Germany.

Members

The fifty founding members (along with Leonard ):

  • Urban Ahlin, Swedish Social Democratic politician, Vice- Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Swedish Parliament
  • Martti Ahtisaari, a Finnish social democratic politician and diplomat, former Finnish President (1994-2000) and UN Special Envoy in Kosovo ( since 2006)
  • Giuliano Amato, Italian Socialist politician, former Prime Minister of Italy (1992-1993, 2000-2001) and director of the Amato Group to elaborate the EU reform this agreement has
  • Androsch, Austrian Social Democratic politician
  • Marek Belka, former Prime Minister of Poland (2004-2005, independent), Head of the UN Economic Commission for Europe
  • Svetoslav Bojilov, founder of the Communitas Foundation
  • Emma Bonino, Italian politician ( Radical Party ) and former European Commissioner for Consumer Protection and Humanitarian Aid ( 1995-1999)
  • Robert Cooper, Director General for Foreign and Political-Military Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union and author for EU foreign policy
  • Marta Dassù, Advisor to the Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D' Alema, leader of the Italian Aspen Institute
  • Gijs de Vries, Dutch liberal politician, former EU Counter-Terrorism Officer (2004-2007)
  • Jean -Luc Dehaene, Belgian Christian Democratic politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium (1992-1999), Vice- President of the European Convention ( 2004), Member of the European Parliament (since 2004)
  • Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Italian politician ( Radical Party ), former Member of the European Parliament ( 1994-2004 )
  • Andrew Duff, a British Liberal politician, Member of the European Convention ( 2004), MEP ( since 1999)
  • Sarmite Ēlerte, editor of the Latvian daily Diena
  • Brian Eno, British musician
  • Joschka Fischer, German Green politician, former German Foreign Minister (1998-2005)
  • Timothy Garton Ash, a British historian and writer, professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford
  • Bronislaw Geremek, Polish liberal politician, former Polish Foreign Minister (1997-2000), MEP ( since 2004)
  • Diego Hidalgo, co-founder of the Spanish daily El País, President of the Madrid think tank FRIDE
  • Mary Kaldor, British Professor, Head of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics
  • Gerald Knaus, spokesman for the European Stability Initiative
  • Caio Koch-Weser, German Social Democratic politician, lobbyist and member of the extended board of Deutsche Bank, former Vice President of the World Bank (1991-1999)
  • Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch architect
  • Ivan Krastev, a board member of the Bulgarian Centre for Liberal Strategies
  • Mart Laar, Estonian conservative politician, former Estonian Prime Minister (1992-1994, 1999-2002)
  • Adam Lury
  • Alain Minc, a French journalist, former Chairman of the daily newspaper Le Monde
  • Christine Ockrent, Belgian journalist
  • Leoluca Orlando, Italian politician (Italia dei Valori ), former mayor of Palermo ( 1985-2000 ) and MEP ( 1994-1999), member of the Italian Parliament (since 2006)
  • Cem Özdemir, chairman of the party Alliance 90/The Greens, Member of the European Parliament ( 2004-2009)
  • Šimon Panek, founder of the Czech welfare organization People in Need
  • Teresa Patrício Gouveia, Portugal conservative politician, former Secretary of State (2004-2005)
  • Chris Patten, British Conservative politician, last Governor-General of Hong Kong (1992-1997) and former European Commissioner for External Relations (1999-2004)
  • Diana Pinto, French historian
  • Andrew Puddephatt, director of the Network Global Partners and Associates
  • Sigrid Rausing, founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust philanthropic
  • Albert Rohan, Austrian diplomat
  • Pierre Schori, a Swedish diplomat and Social Democratic politician, General Director of the Madrid think tank FRIDE, former MEP (1999-2000)
  • Narcis Serra, Spanish socialist politician, a former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister (1991-1995)
  • Elif Shafak, Turkish writer
  • Aleksander Smolar, Polish journalist and political analyst
  • George Soros, investment banker and speculator, financier of democratic opposition movements in Osteuoropa ( Soros Foundation )
  • Dominique Strauss -Kahn, French socialist politician and former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (2007-2011)
  • Helle Thorning- Schmidt, Danish Socialist politician and party chairman, former MEP (1999-2004)
  • Michiel van Hulten, Dutch Social Democratic politician, former MEP (1999-2004)
  • Mabel van Oranje, International Advocacy Director of the Open Society Institute, wife of Prince Johan Friso of Orange- Nassau
  • Antonio Vitorino, Portuguese socialist politician, former MEP (1994-1995), Portuguese Minister of Defence (1995-1997) and European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs (1999-2004)
  • Stephen Wall, former adviser to Tony Blair for European Affairs
  • Andre Wilkens, Director of the Competence Centre for International Affairs of the Stiftung Mercator.

For expert field, including

  • Nick Witney, a British diplomat and negotiator of the British Ministry of Defense in the controversial " Al Yamamah " arms deal between BAE ( British Aerospace Industries) and Saudi Arabia.

Awards

The work of the ECFR has already won several awards. In published by the University of Pennsylvania " Go-To Think Tanks " Report of the ECFR in 2008 and 2009 "Best New think tank world " award over the years. Furthermore, the Prospect magazine awarded him in 2010 the title of "best UK-based think tank of the year dealing with non -UK affairs".

In a book about global think tank writes in charge of the " Go-To Think Tanks " Ranking Dr. James G. McGann over the ECFR: " by the pan-European approach to succeed it the ECFR to move away from the purely national perspective and so to find recommendations and solutions that served Europe as a whole. By considering all the actors involved could achieve better long-term results than if only was on the interests of a single state in the center. "

Financing

The ECFR is a private, nonprofit organization working which is financed by donations. The main supporters of the ECFR, the Open Society Foundations, Communitas Foundation, Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior ( FRIDE ), Stiftung Mercator, Unicredit and the U.S. investor George Soros.

Criticism

See peace initiatives in the activities of the ECFR primarily a campaign for the militarization and rearmament of the EU.

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