Transatlantic Policy Network

Transatlantic Policy Network
Membership	•  Elmar Brok •  John Boehner •  Danuta Hübner •  Jim Costa •  Burkhard Ober •  Lisa Schroeter •  James Elles •  Mark W Titterington •  Peter Sutherland •  Robert S. Strauss •  Jim Kolbe •  Erika Mann •  Cal Dooley •  Bill Frenzel •  Manuel Medina Ortega •  Mike Oxley •  Hanns R. Glatz •  Martin Zimmerman •  Jacques Leflon •  Lisa Schroeter •  Oana Matei •  Edit Herczog •  Isabel Benjumea •  Reinhard Bütikofer •  Daniel Caspary •  Pilar del Castillo Vera •  Jan Christian Ehler •  Tanja Fajon •  Fredrick Federley •  Markus Ferber •  Søren Gade •  Michael Gahler •  Danuta Maria Hübner •  Seán Kelly •  Arba Kokalari •  Constanze Angela Krehl •  Miapetra Kumpula-Natri •  Ilhan Kyuchyuk •  Janusz Lewandowski •  Leopoldo López Gil •  Antonio López-Istúriz White •  David McAllister •  Francisco Millán Mon •  Sven Mikser •  Morten Helveg Petersen •  Kati Piri •  Andreas Schwab •  Pedro Silva Pereira •  Tonino Picula •  Sven Schulze •  Nicolae Ștefănuță •  József Szájer •  Paul Tang •  Dragoş Tudorache •  István Ujhelyi •  Axel Voss •  Javier Zarzalejos •  Pat Roberts •  Roger Wicker •  Kevin Brady •  Michael Conaway •  Jim Costa •  Susan Davis •  Eliot Engel •  Bill Keating •  Ron Kind •  Darin LaHood •  Kenny Marchant •  Ed Perlmutter •  Collin Peterson •  David Schweikert •  James Sensenbrenner
secretive lobby group

The Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) is a US organisation dedicated to influencing EU policy while describing it as a 'partnership'.

For example, the document "The new trans-Atlantic agenda of December 1995" states "The Agenda's content reflects input from TPN's report "A European Strategy to the US" - the network's concise analysis of what Europeans needed to do to put relations with the US on a new, stronger footing".

Overview

From a small original base of support in the European Parliament and the US Congress, TPN has grown into a broadly-based multi-party group of EU and US politicians, corporate leaders, influential think-tanks, civil society stakeholders, and academics. Through regular informal dialogue and the maintenance of close personal relationships, TPN participants keep the two administrations focused on the indispensable goal of a strengthened Transatlantic Partnership.

TPN helps to frame the debate on how governments should anticipate challenges, measure risks and adopt the necessary policies for global economic and political stability. It promotes the closest possible partnership between the Governments & the peoples of the European Union & the United States.

The group is not only a lobbyist for big multinational corporations, but also a tool for the military complex, "focusing on the security challenges facing the transatlantic partners, NATO and defense policy", and looking at.."geopolitical changes and challenges, in particular, from Asia".

How the lobbying operates

Transatlantic Week private conference

The Transatlantic Week brings together a critical mass of legislators, US Administration and EU institution officials as well as representatives from the business, academic, civil society, and trade association communities from both sides of the Atlantic. The annual multi-day conference looks at key issues in US-EU cooperation. In addition to developing practical recommendations for near-term action and responses to policy challenges, Transatlantic Week also aims to raise the profile of the Transatlantic Partnership and its potential in managing key challenges more effectively through joint action.

Outreach Roundtables

Outreach roundtables are informal, high level discussions that enable TPN to make practical recommendations for improving transatlantic co-operation in a number of key areas. Under political leadership, these meetings in Brussels and Washington DC generate balanced conclusions reflecting the views of members on both sides of the Atlantic, including those working closely with the European and American administrations.

Political and Educational Exchanges

Members of the United States Congress and of the European Parliament regularly exchange visits so as to encourage a common understanding of the themes currently dominating the transatlantic relationship. Through time, TPN-organised meetings have forged friendships and broadened support for the Network’s goals, also facilitating staff exchanges organised by cooperating institutions.

Member companies

Businesses become members of TPN to work for a strong transatlantic partnership in the best interests of their companies...

The TPN website lists member companies per 2020 as:

Allianz

Amway

Apple

AT&T

BASF

Bertelsmann

Caterpillar

Coca-Cola

Daimler

Dow Chemical

Eli Lilly

Facebook

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

IBM

Intel

JP Morgan

Microsoft

Oracle

Philip Morris International

Procter & Gamble

Siemens

Syngenta

United Technologies

UPS

Walt Disney

an older list mentions:

• ABB
• Deutsche Bank
• Pechiney
• Accenture
• Dow Chemical
• Pfizer International
• AOL Time Warner
• EDS
• Philips BASF
• Ford Motor Company SAP
• Bertelsmann AG
• AG General Electric SAS
• Boeing
• Honeywell
• Siemens AG
• BP
• IBM
• Unilever BT
• Merck
• United Technologies Corporation
• Caterpillar
• Michelin
• UPS
• Coca-Cola
• Microsoft
• Xerox
• DaimlerChrysler
• Nestlé [1]

The TPN website also lists "cooperating institutions" as being a part of the "TPN network" as some very central power organizations, including the CIA (German Marshall Fund) and NATO (Atlantic Council). [2]

• Aspen Institute - Berlin
• Aspen Institute - Italy
• The Atlantic Council of the United States
• Brookings Institution
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
• Congressional Economic Leadership Institute (CELI)
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• European Policy Centre (EPC)
• The European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT)
• European-American Business Council
• EC Committee of the American Chamber (Brussels)
• European Institute (Washington)
• German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI)
• Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
• UNICE
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• US Council on Competitiveness

 

Known members

33 of the 114 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
AT&T	The world's largest telecommunications company and the largest provider of mobile telephone services in the USA
Allianz
Apple	A tech company, in a corrupt duopoly with Microsoft, its effective social engineering of children during the 2010s and 2000s and its adaption of youth culture made it the most valuable company in the world. PRISM-member. Throws activists or anyone not a WEF-member of their platform in geopolitical dilemmas. Fashion industry and wage slavery promoter.
Bertelsmann
Boeing	US based arms manufacturer which also makes civilian aircraft that since the 1990s have became known for their sometimes dubious reliability.
Elmar Brok	lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular
Reinhard Bütikofer	German politician, regular at the Brussels Forum, also attends WEF AGMs
Coca-Cola	Beverage company. It forces poor people to use them as replacement for polluted water supplies... that CC caused.
Deutsche Bank	German bank
Dow Chemical	Big chemical corporation and producer of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war. Also known for the Bhopal explosion.
Eli Lilly	Psychiatric drugs,Prozac, MKUltra...
James Elles	A member of the European Parliament
Facebook	The world's most popular social network, with over 1,000,000,000 users in 2014.
Ford Motor Company	American multinational automobile manufacturer
IBM
Intel	Biggest US Tech company, its owner warned its main products would become a casus belli for WW3.
JPMorgan Chase	A multinational banking and financial services holding company. Deep state power for more than a century.
Merck	Big pharma with a long rap sheet of unethical practices
Microsoft	Started in 1975 with Paul Allen, Bill Gates developed Microsoft from a operating system maker of computers into one of the most prolific companies of all time, valued over $1 trillion, 3rd most valuable in the world. MS has over a billion in fines from corruption, mass surveillance violations & tax evasion. MS has market shares in dozens of markets, leading in the Platformization-epidemic of the 2010s started by big tech. It was the first partner in the NSA-PRISM program.
Sven Mikser	Estonian politician. Munich Security Conference Young Leader
Nestlé	Swiss Big Food multinational
Oracle	Tech company with significant connections to the national security industry
Pfizer	A multinational big pharma company. Made a killing during COVID
Philips	An electric company which was a major funder of Le Cercle.
Procter & Gamble	Huge multi-billion dollar multinational corporation; specialising in consumer goods.
Pat Roberts
James Sensenbrenner	One of Sibel Edmonds' "Dirty Dozen"
Siemens
Robert Strauss	US lawyer and deep state operative
Peter Sutherland	A deep politician who held some key posts including Chairman of Goldman Sachs, WTO head, Attorney General of Ireland ...
Unilever	Multinational specialized in providing people the illusion of choice in local supermarkets. Targeted by Operation Gladio-agents in the Netherlands with blackmail.
Joseph Wilson	US diplomat husband of Valerie Plame
Xerox

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