Alexander Stubb
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| Born | Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb 1968-04-01 Helsinki, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Finnish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Furman University, Paris-Sorbonne University, College of Europe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | • Oliver Stubb • Emilie Stubb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Siblings | Nicolas Stubb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Suzanne Innes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | European Council on Foreign Relations, European Policy Centre, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | National Coalition Party | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish top politician. At university, a CIA recruiter "put her claws into" him, and he kept his contact with agency people since then. He was selected a YGL 2009. Heavy WEF annual meeting habit. He attended the 2015 Bilderberg meeting.
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Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015.
At university, a CIA recruiter " put her claws into" him, and he kept his contact with agency people since then.
As politician, he consistently supports US positions, including Finland joining NATO. He was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009. He attended the 2015 Bilderberg meeting.
Contents
Education
With CIA at Furman University
Stubb studied in the U.S. at the Furman University 1989-1993. Stubb's brother had been an exchange student in the family of the Furman professor Bill Lavery a well-known CIA employee [Citation Needed], specialized in Russian studies. In his memoirs Stubb explains how he ended up at Furman: "I ended up at Furman, because my brother was an exchange student in a family, where the father Bill Lavery was a professor of Russian history at Furman. I went to see Nixu and get acquainted with the school at the same time"[1] When studying there later, "At the dormitory, I shared a pitiful room with Nick Lavery", the son of Bill Lavery .
CIA recruitment officer "put her claws into him"
Stubb then studied at the College of Europe in Brugge. Stubb tells he got acquainted with an interesting American woman called Valerie Plame. Plame was later exposed as a CIA officer[2]. Her mission at the university, frequented by future leaders, was to do recruitment[3].
Stubb tell how "We made friends with Valerie in study groups, we took same courses. It seems Valerie liked that I had studied in the U.S." Relationship between Stubb and Plame was close. Plame told him she was "an American diplomat". According to Stubb, they maintained contact for years afterwards.[4] "We kept contact after our studies. Yearly she sent letters and postcards", Stubb writes. "When Emilie was born, Valerie sent a nice ceramic photo frame with the name and date of birth of the newborn", Stubb writes. He gives much credit to her employer:
In honor of the CIA, it can be said that it has good agents: immediately she put her claws into a guy who later became Finnish premier[5]
The communication between Stubb and Plame ended when Plame was exposed in 2003, i.e. it lasted almost nine years. The fact that Plame stopped to continue to communicate with Stubb after 2003 means that the communication between the two of them was initiated by CIA Directorate of Operations Europe.[6]
Later, as a minister, Stubb reported directly to Condoleezza Rice. According to Stubb, they talked on the telephone "as often as a teenage couple that just started dating". Rice even called him three times, while he was running a marathon, Stubb writes in his memoirs. Stubb also remembers to mention what beautiful legs Rice has.[7]
Early career
Between 1995 and 1997, Stubb was a researcher at the Finnish Foreign Office, and then at the Academy of Finland from 1997 to 1999. In 1997 he began to work also as a columnist.[8]
From 1999 to 2001, Stubb was a researcher in Finland's representation in the European Union in Brussels, and a member of the Finnish government's delegation to the intergovernmental negotiations for the Treaty of Nice. In 2000, he became a lecturer at the College of Europe. Following the IGC's conclusion in 2001 he became an adviser to the President of the European Commission (then Romano Prodi) and a member of the Commission Task Force on the European Convention. In 2003 he returned to Finland's representation to the EU as a special expert and to the intergovernmental negotiations, this time for the European Constitution. When that ended in 2004, he stood for the National Coalition Party in the election to the European Parliament.[9][10] Stubb was a Member of the European Parliament for Finland from 2004 to 2008.
Foreign Minister
On 1 April 2008, Stubb's 40th birthday, the Finnish government announced that Stubb would be appointed as its new Minister for Foreign Affairs following a "scandal" surrounding his predecessor, Ilkka Kanerva, who had flirted over SMS with an erotic dancer.[11] The decision to appoint Stubb was unanimous.[12]
On his appointment, Stubb was described a supporter of Finland's accession toNATO, stating that he does not understand Finland's non-alignment policy.[13]
In 2010 Stubb and Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt proposed the European Institute of Peace, which received support from a number of similar US/NATO-friendly deep state actors. They developed a joint non-paper that was addressed to EU High Representative Catherine Ashton.[14] At the same time, the idea of the Institute gained increasing attention among members of the European Parliament (MEP) and was particularly supported by German MEP Franziska Brantner[15] and French MEP Alain Lamassoure.[16] The institute was founded in 2014.
In 2011 when Stubb was Foreign Minister, leaked diplomatic cables from the US embassy in Helsinki stated that Jori Arvonen, Senior Political Adviser to Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, had predicted that the National Coalition Party would aspire to lead Finland to NATO during the next parliamentary term.[17]
Prime Minister (2014–2015)
When Jyrki Katainen stepped down as Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Coalition Party, Stubb was elected as party chairman in June 2014. He formed a five party government coalition, and was officially appointed Prime Minister by President Sauli Niinistö on 24 June.
Stubb supported the proposal to implement basic income experiments in the country.[18]
In the election held in April 2015 Stubb's National Coalition Party lost its status as the largest party, coming in as second in vote share and third in seats. Coalition negotiations began on 8 May between the winning Center Party, Finns Party and National Coalition Party.[19] He resigned from the office days after the election and left office on 29 May 2015.
Minister of Finance (2015–2016)
Stubb was appointed Minister of Finance on 29 May 2015 by newly elected Prime Minister Juha Sipilä.[20] Stubb has demanded "structural reforms, structural reforms and more structural reforms".[21] Stubb's term as Minister of Finance saw spending cuts which affected the Finnish welfare state and public education system.[22][23]
In November and December 2015, Stubb was in the middle of a scandal when he was accused of lying to Finnish Parliament consistently and deliberately. In November, Stubb had said to Parliament that 90 percent of the experts who had given a statement were supporting the government's pact to make it possible for Finns to own publicly listed companies' stock through nominee accounts. The real number was 10 percent, opposite of what Stubb had said.[24]
Partly as a result of a series of Stubb's gaffes, such as insensitive tweets,[25]> in spring 2016, MP Elina Lepomäki and Minister of Interior Petteri Orpo announced that they would challenge Stubb in June's party conference. On 11 June Stubb lost the election against Orpo, who became the new leader of the National Coalition Party.[26] Orpo soon announced that he would take Stubb's seat as the Minister of Finance.[27] In return, he offered Stubb the role of Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade, but Stubb declined and decided to continue as a Member of Parliament.[28]
Later career
On 15 June 2017, Stubb was chosen as the Vice-President of the European Investment Bank, after the previous representative from Finland Jan Vapaavuori had vacated the seat.[29] He left his position in Parliament on 30 July 2017 in order to assume his new position.[30] Stubb later commented that he had no interest in returning to the Finnish politics, but could be interested in running for the presidency of the European Commission or European Council.[31]
In June 2017, Stubb was nominated by Martti Ahtisaari to assume the leadership of the Crisis Management Initiative, a non-governmental organisation.[32]
On 2 October 2018, Stubb launched his bid for presidency of the European Commission as the lead candidate of the European People's Party.[33] On 8 November 2018, Stubb lost in EPP's top election against Manfred Weber, the group leader for the European People's Party in the European Parliament.<rehttps://www.politico.eu/article/epp-debate-europes-conservatives-nominate-manfred-weber-for-eu-top-job-spitzenkandidat-european-parliament-election-2019/</ref>
In January 2020, as Stubb's term at the European Investment Bank was ending, he was chosen as the Director and Professor of the School of Transnational Governance-based within the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.[34] He started in the position on 1 May 2020.[35]
On 16 August 2023, Stubb announced that he would accept National Coalition Party's candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.[36]
2015 shooting
In 2015, two young men attacked Stubb’s house in Finland at night while his family was sleeping by shooting at their window.[37] One of the men died before court.[38]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/2015 | 11 June 2015 | 14 June 2015 | Austria Telfs-Buchen | The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria |
| Munich Security Conference/2009 | 2009 | 2009 | The 45th Munich Security Conference | |
| Munich Security Conference/2024 | 16 February 2024 | 18 February 2024 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | Switzerland | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2015 | 21 January 2015 | 24 January 2015 | Switzerland | Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2016 | 20 January 2016 | 23 January 2016 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2022 | 22 May 2022 | 26 May 2022 | Switzerland | 1912 guests in Davos |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
References
- ↑ Stubb, Alexander & Hämäläinen, Karo: Alex. Otava, 2017. ISBN 978-951-1-31393-9. page 39
- ↑ https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna18924679
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/30/usa.helenasmith Not directly stated, but she went "undercover" there.
- ↑ https://mvlehti.net/2017/09/02/former-finnish-premier-stubb-reveals-his-cia-contacts-as-plame-and-lavery/
- ↑ https://www.hbl.fi/artikel/28438dae-4830-4ee6-a416-b86602f0533b In Swedish '"satte klorna i"- "put her claws into", presumably a translation from Finnish
- ↑ https://mvlehti.net/2017/09/06/do-russians-know-everything-about-alexander-stubbs-cooperation-with-the-cia/
- ↑ Stubb, Alexander & Hämäläinen, Karo: Alex. Otava, 2017. ISBN 978-951-1-31393-9. page 139
- ↑ http://www.alexstubb.com/?page_id=45
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080407142708/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do?language=EN&id=28261
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070928060256/http://www.alexstubb.com/en/index.php?trg=info&id=23
- ↑ http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Foreign+Minister+admits+to+sending+text+messages+to+dancer/1135234716668
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090116021717/http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=18391&group=Politics
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080406192437/http://www.hs.fi/english/article/MEP%2BAlexander%2BStubb%2Bto%2Breplace%2BIlkka%2BKanerva%2Bas%2BForeign%2BMinister/1135235217385
- ↑ http://www.finlandcoe.fr/public/default.aspx?contentid=199709&nodeid=38770&contentlan=2&culture=en-US
- ↑ http://www.franziska-brantner.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/EIP-costs-benefits-and-options.pdf
- ↑ http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/arbeitspapiere/mjr_kruempelmann_EIP_Paper_May2013_FINAL.pdf
- ↑ http://yle.fi/uutiset/wikileaks_us_embassy_urged_finland_to_join_nato/5321425
- ↑ https://basicincome.org/news/2014/10/finland-the-opposition-leader-proposes-basic-income-pilots/
- ↑ http://yle.fi/uutiset/kolmen_assan_humppa__seuraa_hallitusohjelmavaantoa_smolnassa_hetki_hetkelta/7978517
- ↑ http://valtioneuvosto.fi/tietoa/historiaa/hallitukset-ja-ministerit/raportti/-/r/v9l/13
- ↑ http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/a1448606137482
- ↑ http://www.politico.eu/article/finland-economy-crisis-alexander-stubb-finnish-education/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160107054651/http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/a1451879703857
- ↑ https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-8495720
- ↑ http://www.politico.eu/article/finland-economy-crisis-alexander-stubb-finnish-education/
- ↑ http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-2000001198700.htm
- ↑ http://yle.fi/uutiset/orpo_nappaa_valtiovarainministerin_salkun__stubbin_uudet_tehtavat_tarkentuvat_myohemmin/895054
- ↑ http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/a1465954449768
- ↑ https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9673088?origin=rss
- ↑ https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/tiedotteet/Sivut/Kansanedustaja-Alexander-Stubbille-vapautus-edustajantyosta.aspx
- ↑ https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/politicos-eu-confidential-podcast-alexander-stubb-spitzenkandidat-mep-of-the-week/
- ↑ http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000005203413.htm
- ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/former-finnish-prime-minister-alexander-stubb-launches-bid-to-be-next-commission-president/
- ↑ https://dynamic.hs.fi/a/2020/stubb/
- ↑ https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/ed08a66a-707d-4350-b4c8-7c66b2162680
- ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/former-finland-pm-alexander-stubb-to-run-for-president/
- ↑ https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/13505-two-men-detained-for-vandalism-attack-on-stubb-s-home.html
- ↑ https://www.savonsanomat.fi/paikalliset/3038384
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