European Council on Foreign Relations
Founded in 2007, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a think-tank trying to copy its hugely influential US counterpart, the Council on Foreign Relations. The ECFR has a significant crossover with the Institute for Statecraft and the Integrity Initiative.
ECFR has offices in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Warsaw and Sofia, with Berlin serving as headquarter. Being funded by and working on behalf of corporate interests, the think-tank looks for "threats" and pushes corporate-friendly policies like increased military budgets.
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Origins
ECFR was founded in 2007 by Mark Leonard together with a council of fifty founding members, chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer, and Mabel van Oranje.
Funding
The ECFR is a private organization that relies on donations from big corporations and foundations close to billionaires, plus some funding from Western governments. It was originally established with the support of Open Society Foundations, Communitas Foundation and the Spanish FRIDE.
About half of ECFR's funding comes from such foundations, one third from governments and the rest from corporations and rich individuals. Open Society Foundations is the main donor to ECFR, funding with its grants one third (£2,345,566 in 2017) of ECFR's total income (£7,278,122 in 2017). Other donors include major organizations mainly from Europe and the Western world such as the foundation Stiftung Mercator (Germany) (£710,753 or ~10% total funding in 2017), European and the Japanese governments, NATO, leading corporations such as Daimler AG and Microsoft as well as rich individuals.
Members
ECFR's community includes serving foreign ministers, former prime ministers, members of national parliaments and the European Parliament, EU Commissioners, former NATO secretaries generals, business leaders and system-friendly thinkers and journalists. The Council gathers once a year as a full body for the Annual Council Meeting, hosted in a different European capital each year.
A document from the 4th Integrity Initiative Leak revealed that two members of the European Council on Foreign Relations were also members of the Integrity Initiative's Spanish Cluster: Borja Lasheras & Nika Prislan. Nacho Torreblanco, also an II member was director of the ECFR Office in Madrid. Kadri Liik is also a member of the IfS UK inner core.
Employees on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Judah | Policy Fellow | September 2010 | January 2013 |
| Andrew Puddephatt | Management Committee Member | January 2007 |
Known members
117 of the 428 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Martti Ahtisaari | 10th President of Finland, UN Commissioner for Namibia, 3 Bilderbergs |
| Joaquín Almunia | Spanish politician, European Commissioner for 10 years, 6 Bilderbergs |
| Luís Amado | Portuguese politician who attended the 2012 Bilderberg |
| Valerie Amos | British Labour politician |
| Timothy Garton Ash | UK historian, Ditchley Governor with other connections. Presented a paper to the 1989 Bilderberg. Subsequently attended two more, over a span of 30 years. |
| Senem Aydın-Düzgit | Single Bilderberger Turkish academic. Opponent of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, strongly for the European Union. Published about COVID-19 |
| Annalena Baerbock | "A perfect product of transatlantic leader selection." |
| Gordon Bajnai | Attended the 2014 Bilderberg as ex-Prime Minister of Hungary |
| Roland Berger | German entrepreneur and possible deep state actor |
| Carl Bildt | Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions. |
| Emma Bonino | Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection |
| Laurence Boone | French economist who caught a "Bilderberg wind" at the 2015 Bilderberg. By 2018, OECD Chief Economist. Later appointed to the Lancet's Commission on COVID-19 |
| Stine Bosse | Single Bilderberg Danish businesswoman and later President of the European Movement in Denmark. |
| Franziska Brantner | German super-militarist Green politician. |
| John Bruton | Club de Madrid, Triple Bilderberger Irish politician |
| Alistair Burt | UK politician with deep state connections |
| Gunilla Carlsson | Attended the 2012 Bilderberg as Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation. In 2021, framing vaccine passport discussion and on the board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. |
| Julia De Clerck-Sachsse | Munich Security Conference Young Leader, multiple BF visits |
| Robert Cooper | UK diplomat with a string of interesting roles. "One of the top 100 "public intellectuals" in the world"... |
| Marta Dassù | Deep state connected general director of the international activities of Aspen Institute Italy. NATO, Trilateral Commission, European Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies... |
| Ahmet Davutoğlu | Former Turkish Prime Minister |
| Kemal Derviş | UNDP administrator, 4 times Bilderberger, Brookings |
| Anna Diamantopoulou | Greek politician. Attended 5 Bilderbergs from 2004 to 2009. |
| Joschka Fischer | German Bilderberg politician who was the main driver in transforming the Green Party from pacifism to hyper-militarism. |
| Lykke Friis | Former Danish minister for Climate and Energy, where she presided over the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Member of European Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission. |
| Sigmar Gabriel | German deep state operative, Atlantik-Brücke Chairman since 2019 |
| Alexander Gabuev | Russian academic in American deep state employ, researching the Sino-Russia relationship. Attended the 2024 Bilderberg meeting. |
| Alessandra Galloni | WEF YGL Italian journalist named editor in chief of Reuters in 2021. |
| Kristalina Georgieva | Bilderberg World Bank |
| Isabel Gil | Attended the 2024 Bilderberg as rector of the Catholic University of Portugal. |
| Sylvie Goulard | French politician who attended the 2016 Bilderberg. Deputy Governor of the Bank of France since 2018 |
| Sandro Gozi | Italian politician/MEP. Attended the 2017 Bilderberg |
| Caroline de Gruyter | Europe-correspondent for the Dutch NRC Handelsblad. Bilderberg/2024. Think-tanks. |
| Jean-Marie Guéhenno | French globalist diplomat with many ties to the making of defense and security policies. |
| Ulrike Guérot | Deep state operative who was persecuted after she publicly dissented from SDS policy. |
| Sasha Havlicek | CEO/Director of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue |
| Connie Hedegaard | Danish politician, multi-Bilderberger |
| Jaakko Iloniemi | Bilderberg Steering committee, Finnish Ambassador to the US |
| Toomas Ilves | President of Estonia with a lot of Deep State connections, including membership of the Munich Security Conference Advisory Council. |
| Wolfgang Ischinger | Spooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference |
| Jo Johnson | Younger brother of Boris Johnson, Bullingdon and other deep state connections |
| Kaja Kallas | Estonian politician |
| Sylvie Kauffmann | Deep state connected French journalist |
| Parag Khanna | Connected 'thinker' who favors Singaporean technocracy |
| Roderich Kiesewetter | Former Bundeswehr general staff officer turned politician |
| Eckart von Klaeden | Triple Bilderberg German politician |
| Bassma Kodmani | A Syrian/French "trusted lieutenant of the Anglo-American democracy-promotion industry". who attended 2 Bilderbergs; in 2008 before the start of the 2011 regime change proxy war, and in 2012. |
| Bert Koenders | International Crisis Group, International Commission on Missing Persons, UN Secretary-General' Special Representative in Ivory Coast from 2011 to 2013, founded the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank/International Monetary Fund, President of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly and leader of its Socialist Group, member of the parliamentary hearing committee on the Srebrenica massacre, Private secretary of Hans van den Broek, tried to memory hole 2015 Hawija bombing with Mark Rutte & Jeanine Hennis. |
| Stefan Kornelius | German editor. Süddeutsche Zeitung |
| Bernard Kouchner | Bilderberg French politician, 3 times French Health minister, founded Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde, attended 2005 pandemic planning exercise Atlantic Storm |
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Sponsors
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Mercator Foundation | German foundation financing projects of deep state interest and buying control over the narrative, especially on "climate change" and pro-migration. Frequently connected to censorship initiatives. |
| Open Society Foundations | A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered. |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund | Rockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War. |
