Friends of Europe

The Friends of Europe ( FoE ) (Les amis de l'Europe ) is a Brussels think tank that focuses on the analysis and discussion of policies of the European Union. The association was founded in 1999 and is political, national and independent of EU institutions. Your goal is to create new ideas and to stimulate the debate on Europe with the involvement of the media. In the membership, there are many prominent personalities in European politics. In addition to personal members of European institutions and companies are reported as corporate members.

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President Viscount Etienne Davignon is, former Vice President of the European Commission. The officers are on to:

• Pat Cox, President of the European Parliament 2002-2004
• Jean -Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 to 1999
• Baron Daniel Janssen, former CEO of Solvay and member of the Steering Committee of the Trilateral Commission
• Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO
• Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian Prime Minister, and
• António Vitorino, former Portuguese Minister of Defense and the European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs.

Secretary General of Friends of Europe 's Giles Merritt, former Brussels correspondent for the Financial Times.