European Council on Foreign Relations

European Council on Foreign Relations
(Deep state milieu?)
European Council on Foreign Relations ; (Deep state milieu?)
Formation	2007
Founder	Mark Leonard
Headquarters	Berlin, German
Leader	European Council on Foreign Relations/Director;
Sponsored by	Mercator Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Subpage	•European Council on Foreign Relations/Council chair; •European Council on Foreign Relations/Director;
Membership	• Tomáš Valášek; • Radosław Sikorski; • Ewa Łabno-Falęcka; • Paweł Świeboda; • François Burgat; • Željko Jovanović; • Ismaël Emelien; • Şafak Pavey; • José María de Areilza Carvajal; • Mikołaj Dowgielewicz; • André Wilkens; • Jiří Pehe; • Samuel Žbogar; • Tamás Meszerics; • Srđan Darmanović; • Rocío Martinez-Sampere; • Ayşe Kadıoğlu; • Radmila Šekerinska Jankovska; • Rebecca Adler-Nissen; • Imma Aguilar; • Urban Ahlin; • Martti Ahtisaari; • Yoeri Albrecht; • Douglas Alexander; • Joaquín Almunia; • Ekim Alptekin; • Luís Amado; • Giuliano Amato; • Vincenzo Amendola; • Valerie Amos; • Niels Annen; • Giampiero Auletta Armenise; • Timothy Garton Ash; • Senem Aydin-Düzgit; • Asli Aydıntaşbaş; • Claudia Azevedo; • Annalena Baerbock; • Thomas Bagger; • Gordon Bajnai; • Julien Barnes-Dacey; • Lluís Bassets; • Pawel Zerka; • Susanne Baumann; • Marek Belka; • Edwin Bendyk; • Roland Berger; • Erik Berglof; • Cinzia Bianco; • Carl Bildt; • Andreas Bock; • Peter Bofinger; • Catherine De Bolle; • Ingrid Bonde; • Emma Bonino; • Laurence Boone; • Stine Bosse; • Amel Boubekeur; • Umit Boyner; • Anu Bradford; • Jennie Bradley; • Franziska Brantner; • Maurice Braud; • Harald Braun; • Majlinda Bregu; • Sandra Breka; • John Bruton; • María Sicilia de Bruyelle; • Goran Buldioski; • Piotr Buras; • Alistair Burt; • Ditmir Bushati; • Mara Carfagna; • Gunilla Carlsson; • Maria Livanos Cattaui; • Dita Charanzová; • Céline Charveriat; • Lolita Cigane; • Mathilde Ciulla; • Ian Clarkson; • Nicola Clase; • Julia De Clerck-Sachsse; • Robert Cooper; • Teresa Coratella; • Claudio Corbino; • Brendan Cox; • João Gomes Cravinho; • Lucinda Creighton; • Anna Terrón Cusí; • Massimo D’Alema; • Kostas BakoyannismMaria Damanaki; • Marta Dassù; • Ahmet Davutoğlu; • Hussein Dawood; • Massimo Deandreis; • Edin Dedovic; • Milica Delević; • Susi Dennison; • Ilinca von Derenthall; • Kemal Derviş; • Anne-Marie Descôtes; • Tibor Dessewffy; • Anna Diamantopoulou; • Karima Dirèche; • Hanzade Doğan Boyner; • Muriel Domenach; • Sorin Ducaru; • Miriam González Durántez; • Elma Durdevic; • Anthony Dworkin; • Hans Eichel; • Karin Enströ; • Steven Everts; • Piero Fassino; • Ádám Ficsor; • Marisa Figueroa; • Shoshana Fine; • Gianfranco Fini; • Lorenzo Fioramonti; • Joschka Fischer; • Roxanne Ford; • Karin Forseke; • José María Robles Fraga; • Ulrike Esther Franke; • Franco Frattini; • Lykke Friis; • Sigmar Gabriel; • Alessandra Galloni; • Jean-Baptiste Gallopin; • Carlos Gaspar; • Kristalina Georgieva; • Ellie Geranmayeh; • Anthony Giddens; • Isabel Capeloa Gil; • Nicole Gnesotto; • Alba Gomez; • José Manuel González-Páramo; • Mihai Gotiu; • Doreen Gotter; • Sylvie Goulard; • Alexia Gouttebroze; • Teresa Gouveia; • Richard Gowan; • Sandro Gozi; • Beatrice de Graaf; • Heather Grabbe; • Christine Graeff; • Camille Grand; • Charles Grant; • Swantje Green; • Gustav Gressel; • Dzhema Grozdanova; • Caroline de Gruyter; • Jean-Marie Guéhenno; • Ulrike Guérot; • Ulrike Guérot; • Claude Guibal; • Elisabeth Guigou; • Fernando Andresen Guimarães; • Jytte Guteland; • István Gyarmati; • Jonathan Hackenbroich; • Fabienne Hara; • Adam Harrison; • Sylvia Hartleif; • Connie Hedegaard; • Steven Heinz; • Anna Herrhausen; • Annette Heuser; • Ina Heusgen; • Diego Hidalgo; • Carla Hobbs; • Joanna Hosa; • Beáta Huszka; • Danuta Hübner; • Anna Ibrisagic; • Jaakko Iloniemi; • Toomas Hendrik Ilves; • Wolfgang Ischinger; • Diana Janse; • Carin Jämtin; • Jo Johnson; • Rasa Juknevičienė; • Mary Kaldor; • Bahadır Kaleağası; • Ivailo Kalfin; • Ibrahim Kalin; • Kersti Kaljulaid; • Kaja Kallas; • Sandra Kalniete; • Claude Kandiyoti; • Lea Kaspar; • Sylvie Kauffmann; • Piia-Noora Kauppi; • Roderich Kiesewetter; • Suat Kınıklıoğlu; • Riina Kionka; • Eckart von Klaeden; • Flavia Kleiner; • Gerald Knaus; • Jana Kobzova; • Bassma Kodmani; • Bert Koenders; • Bärbel Kofler; • Rem Koolhaas; • Dávid Korányi; • Stefan Kornelius; • Bernard Kouchner; • Andrey Kovatchev; • Ivan Krastev; • Martina Krogmann; • Anna Kuchenbecker; • Sebastian Kurz; • Brigid Laffan; • Sergey Lagodinsky; • Miroslav Lajčák; • Alba Lamberti; • Alexander Graf Lambsdorff; • Pascal Lamy; • Manuel Langendorf; • Remzi Lani; • Martina Larkin; • Andrew Lebovich; • Tania Lessenska; • Jean-David Levitte; • Daniel Levy; • Sonja Licht; • Guillaume Liegey; • Kadri Liik; • Gustav Lindstrom; • Linas Linkevičius; • Hugh Lovatt; • Irene Lozano; • Javi López; • Ulrike Lunacek; • Leiv Lunde; • Adam Lury; • Miguel Maduro; • Monica Maggioni; • Bruno Le Maire; • Cecilia Malmström; • Apostolos Mangiriadis; • Cristina Manzano; • Marco Margheri; • Alexander Marschik; • Katarina Mathernova; • Beatrice Weder di Mauro; • Eva Maydell; • David McAllister; • Kirsty McNeill; • Tarek Megerisi; • Andrzej Mendel-Nykorowycz; • Felix Mengel; • Anand Menon; • Tanja Miščević; • Dario Mihelin; • David Miliband; • Nickolay Mladenov; • Henryka Mościcka-Dendys; • Toni Roldán Monés; • Enrique Mora; • Susan Morgan; • Hedvig Morvai; • Pierre Moscovici; • Isabel Mota; • Nader Mousavizadeh; • Almut Möller; • Nils Muiznieks; • Alina Mungiu-Pippidi; • Wolfgang Münchau; • Michelle Müntefering; • Matthias Nass; • Max Neugebauer; • Kalypso Nicolaïdis; • Dietmar Nietan; • Pedro Norton; • Natalie Nougayrède; • Omid Nouripour; • Delphine O; • Christine Ockrent; • Janka Oertel; • Hanna Ojanen; • Andrzej Olechowski; • Dick Oosting; • Mabel van Oranje; • Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau; • Anita Orban; • Andrés Ortega; • Marc Otte; • Zaneta Ozolina; • Cem Özdemir; • Soli Özel; • Behlül Özkan; • Ana Palacio; • Monika Panayotova; • George Papandreou; • Laurence Parisot; • Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz; • Nicolò Russo Perez; • Kelly Petillo; • Mauro Petriccione; • Folke Pfister; • Eva Piera; • Søren Pind; • Kati Piri; • Georgi Pirinski; • Jean Pisani-Ferry; • Lapo Pistelli; • Rosen Plevneliev; • Lilianne Ploumen; • Ruprecht Polenz; • Nicu Popescu; • Charles Powell; • Marek Prawda; • Romano Prodi; • Andrew Puddephatt; • Jana Puglierin; • Lia Quartapelle; • Chris Raggett; • Kristi Raik; • Ana Ramic; • Emanuela C. Del Re; • Nicola Reindorp; • Didier Reynders; • Emma Reynolds; • Louise Richardson; • Marlene Riedel; • Alejandro Romero; • Alexander Rondos; • Adam D. Rotfeld; • Janet Royall; • Norbert Röttgen; • Nikolaus Röttger; • Majda Ruge; • Juan Ruitiña; • Daniel Sachs; • Ghassan Salamé; • Pasquale Salzano; • Stefano Sannino; • Patrycja Sasnal; • Julien Sauné; • Marietje Schaake; • Klaus Scharioth; • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer; • Pierre Schori; • Wolfgang Schüssel; • Andreas Schwab; • Michael Schwarz; • Karel Schwarzenberg; • Daniela Schwarzer; • Giuseppe Scognamiglio; • Piotr Serafin; • Narcís Serra; • Jeremy Shapiro; • Kamelia Slaveykova; • Andrew Small; • Wawrzyniec Smoczyński; • Javier Solana; • Erna Solberg; • Alexander Soros; • George Soros; • Ine Eriksen Søreide; • Annika Söder; • Jenny Söderström; • Volker Stanzel; • Volker Stanzel; • Christoph Steck; • Daniel Stefanov; • Rory Stewart; • Petra Stienen; • Coen van Oostrom; • Jonas Gahr Støre; • Andris Strazds; • Sabine Stricker-Kellerer; • Alexander Stubb; • Ion Sturza; • Michael Stürmer; • Christos Stylianides; • Ulf Sverdrup; • Hannes Swoboda; • Réka Szemerkényi; • Vessela Tcherneva; • Helle Thorning-Schmidt; • Henrik Thune; • Teija Tiilikainen; • Nathalie Tocci; • Caroline Hornstein Tomić; • Adam Tooze; • Ece Güner Toprak; • José Ignacio Torreblanca; • Andreas Treichl; • Rafal Trzaskowski; • Loukas Tsoukalis; • Erkki Tuomioja; • Vygaudas Ušackas; • Saskia van Uffelen; • Chuka Umunna; • Sinan Ülgen; • Justin Vaïsse; • Shahin Vallée; • Jordi Vaquer; • Tara Varma; • Arturo Varvelli; • Ivan Vejvoda; • Margrethe Vestager; • Vaira Vike-Freiberga; • Pere Vilanova; • Pierre Vimont; • António Vitorino; • Romana Vlahutin; • Alida Vračić; • Johann Wadephul; • Rob Wainwright; • Margot Wallströ; • Maria Weimer; • Geir Westgaard; • Sabine Weyand; • Karolina Wigura; • René Wildangel; • Andre Wilkens; • Andrew Wilson; • Nick Witney; • Peter Wolodarski; • Karla Wursterova; • Denica Yotova
	Shares members with the Integrity Initiative's Spanish Cluster

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.

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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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.