European Leadership Network
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The European Leadership Network (ELNET) is an Israel lobby group of nearly 300 past, present and future European leaders which according to itself is working to "foster close relations between Europe and Israel"[1]
With a network of professional affiliate offices in France, Germany, the UK, Belgium (European Union & NATO), Italy, Central and Eastern Europe, and Israel, ELNET works to foster key ties between European and Israeli leaders, and empower friends of Israel across Europe.[2] The selected political, military, diplomatic, civil society and business leaders from across wider Europe are chosen from all parties ("non-partisan" and "impartially"[1]). ELNET also brings "high-level delegations to Israel to experience the realities on the ground"[1].
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Vision
In a rapidly changing global environment, Israel needs as many allies as possible. Europe is also faced with new unprecedented challenges, and seeks innovative solutions to overcome them. Europe plays a major role on the global stage, with the European Union being one of the three largest economies in the world, and two European countries – France and the UK – holding a permanent seat and veto power at the UN Security Council and having nuclear capabilities with global military reach. While 80% of the US Congress has visited Israel, only 10% of European counterparts have done so. ELNET was created to turn this challenge into an opportunity.
ELNET believes Israel and Europe share deep values, mutual interests and strategic challenges. Closer economic and political relations benefit both sides and is important to the future of the Middle East.
As such, the ELNET lobby group works to pursue long-term strategic partnerships between European countries and Israel.
Written Statement to the ICJ
On 4 October 2023, ELNET-UK and UK Lawyers for Israel, submitted evidence to the International Court of Justice as it considered a referral against Israel by the UN General Assembly.
- “This case will cause great damage to the reputation of the International Court. The evidence provided to the Court fails a basic smell test and reeks of anti-Israel bias. We are proud to stand up for the world’s only Jewish State and its right to fair and proper treatment by the international community”. Joan Ryan, CEO of ELNET-UK
- “The Court has been asked to provide an advisory opinion on the basis of a long series of mendacious UN reports, resolutions and other documents. The process is vitiated from the outset with a prevailing and incorrect assumption of guilt. We cannot allow this to go unchallenged”. Jonathan Turner, CEO of UK Lawyers for Israel[3]
First E3-Israel Strategic Dialogue
On 5 November 2023, the European Leadership Network and ELNET’s Forum of Strategic Dialogue (FSD) brought together senior policymakers and experts from across the UK, Germany, France, NATO, and Israel. The dialogue addressed: 'Hamas’s war on Israel and its regional implications’; ‘The Iranian threat’; and ‘Deepening cooperation between Israel, the E3 and NATO to face multiple threats, including Russia’. The discussions were organised by ELNET-UK and conducted strictly under the Chatham House Rule.[4]
Young leaders
- Full article: European Leadership Network/Young Leaders
- Full article: European Leadership Network/Young Leaders
The Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security (YGLN) is "composed of 90 members in their early careers who are rising stars and specialists in security policy, economics, journalism, law and civil society."
Known members
72 of the 209 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Bob Ainsworth | Labour MP, Secretary of State for Defence under Gordon Brown |
| Michael Ancram | Likely took over from Norman Lamont as European chair of Le Cercle. |
| James Arbuthnot | British Conservative Party politician with intelligence/deep state ties. |
| Catherine Ashton | A woman with zero qualification or experience of foreign affairs who, in 2009, was made 'High representative for Foreign Affairs and Security policy' in a deal which finally recognised that the position was NOT going to be given to Tony Blair |
| Mustafa Aydin | Turkish "security" academic. German Marshall Fund. Bilderberg/2024 |
| Margaret Beckett | UK foreign secretary, Le Cercle attendee |
| Hans Blix | Attended the 1989 Bilderberg as IAEA Director General |
| Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Dutch politician & lawyer who attended the 1970 and 1974 Bilderbergs |
| Hans van den Broek | Lawyer, politician, Bilderberger panellist, Dutch Foreign Minister for 10 years. Dutch Minister of State. "Valuable member named by EU-officials". Rejected Secretary General role for NATO. |
| Des Browne | Bought nuclear missiles as UK Secretary of State for Defence, campaigns for nuclear disarmament after leaving power. |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | Deep state/WHO connected Prime Minister/DG, concerned about "too much freedom of speech" |
| Alistair Burt | UK politician with deep state connections |
| Ingvar Carlsson | Took over as Sweden's PM upon the assassination of Olof Palme. He resigned unexpectedly in August 1995 for "health reasons" the day after two off-duty policemen were discovered on his roof. |
| Willy Claes | Bilderberger, fraudster, ex Secretary General of NATO. |
| Charles Clarke | UK politician |
| 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... |
| Espen Barth Eide | Attended the 2013 Bilderberg as Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Uffe Ellemann-Jensen | Started more offensive military/soft power posture as Danish Foreign Minister. 8 Bilderbergs, candidate for NATO General-Secretary. |
| Charles Guthrie | UK Army's Chief of the General Staff 1994-1997 |
| David Hannay | UK diplomat, Ditchley Governor, attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1990s |
| Nick Harvey | |
| François Heisbourg | Promoter of the "war on terror". He wrote a working paper for the 1989 Bilderberg. Heavy MSC habit. |
| Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert | Dutch Defence Minister, connected to the 2015 Hawija bombing, lied about knowledge of any deaths and covered-up any juridical complicity with Mark Rutte & Bert Koenders. |
| Douglas Hurd | UK Deep state operative, Eton, Trinity College, Chatham House/President |
| Jaakko Iloniemi | Bilderberg Steering committee, Finnish Ambassador to the US |
| Wolfgang Ischinger | Spooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference |
| Igor Ivanov | Decidedly pro-Western former Russian Foreign Minister |
| Tedo Japaridze | Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs who inadvertently exposed Le Cercle by mentioning it on his online biography. |
| John Kerr | Scottish businessman and diplomat, attended all Bilderbergs from 2004 up to 2016 |
| Roderich Kiesewetter | Former Bundeswehr general staff officer turned politician |
| Silvana Koch-Mehrin | WEF/Young Global Leaders 2005. Promising euro-politician from the German FDP until revelations that she had plagiarized large parts of her doctoral thesis. |
| 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. |
| Miroslav Lajčák | Slovak diplomat with WEF AGM habit |
| Pierre Lellouche | French politician |
| Mogens Lykketoft | Danish politician |
| Giorgio La Malfa | Triple Bilderberger Italian politician |
| János Martonyi | Hungarian Bilderberger politician |
| Federica Mogherini | Italian politician, WEF |
| David Owen | UK politician who attended the 1973, 1982 and 1993 Bilderbergs |
| Ana Palacio | Spanish politician, member of various spooky groups, signed the People’s Vaccine, attended 10 meetings of the Brussels Forum |
| Wolfgang Petritsch | High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Close to Bruno Kreisky. |
| Anders Fogh Rasmussen | Bilderberger, ex Danish PM, ex-Secretary General of NATO. |
| David Richards | Leader of British army during wars in Libya and Syria. |
| Peter Ricketts | Spooky UK diplomat |
| Malcolm Rifkind | British Conservative politician with many deep state connections |
| George Robertson | Bilderberger, ex Secretary General of NATO with unknown deep political connections. |
| Norbert Röttgen | Bilderberg German politician who blamed people who declined vaccines for a divided society |
| Volker Rühe | German Defence Minister, 5 Bilderbergs, Atlantik-Brücke, suspected Deep state operative |
| Özdem Sanberk | Turkish diplomat |
| Marietje Schaake | Dutch spooky euro-politician on the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, arguing for tighter regulation of big tech to "save democracy" |
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Sponsors
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Carnegie Corporation | Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, with large grants especially to form the education sector. Lots of grants to "security" think tanks too. |
| German Federal Foreign Office | The German Foreign Ministry |
| Heinrich Böll Foundation | Conduit for German government money to select opposition activists. |
| NATO | The world's largest military alliance. "Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all." |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund | Rockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War. |
| UK/FCO | The UK government department dealing with foreign policy. |
