European Leadership Network (ELN)
European Leadership Network | |
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legal form | Nonprofit organization |
founding | March 2011 |
Seat | London , UK |
management | Adam Thomson (Director) and Des Browne (Chair) |
Branch | World politics |
Website | www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org |
The European Leadership Network (ELN) is a network founded in March 2011 with the aim of creating conditions for a peaceful future free of nuclear weapons.
profile
The ELN operates as an impartial, non-profit organization based in London. The members are former prime ministers, foreign ministers, defense ministers as well as experienced diplomatic, military and scientific personalities from Europe, Russia and Turkey.
Members
Executive Board
- Kjell Magne Bondevik , former Prime Minister of Norway
- Des Browne , Former Secretary of Defense and Scotland Minister of Great Britain
- Menzies Campbell , Scottish MP in the House of Commons
- Hikmet Çetin , former Foreign Minister of Turkey
- Rolf Ekéus , former spokesman for the United Nations Special Commission
- Gernot Erler , former Minister of State at the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Søren Gade , former Danish Defense Minister
- Wolfgang Ischinger , German lawyer, international lawyer and former diplomat
- Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov , former Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
- Jan Kavan , former Czech Foreign Minister and Vice Prime Minister and President of the 57th General Assembly of the United Nations
- Ian Kearns
- Giorgio La Malfa , former Italian Minister for European Union Affairs
- Imants Viesturs Lieģis , former Latvian Defense Minister
- Linas Linkevicius , former Lithuanian defense minister and ambassador to NATO
- Bernard Norlain
- Janusz Onyszkiewicz , Vice-President of the European Parliament
- Ana de Palacio , former Spanish Foreign Minister
- Elisabeth Rehn , Finnish politician for the Swedish People's Party
- Alain Richard , former French Minister of Defense
- Malcolm Rifkind , former British Secretary of Defense
- Adam Daniel Rotfeld , former Polish Foreign Minister
- Volker Rühe , former German Defense Minister
- Javier Solana , former Secretary General of NATO, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Secretary General of the Western European Union (WEU)
- Vyacheslav Trubnikov , former director of the Russian foreign intelligence service SWR
- Shirley Williams , Member of the European Parliament's Security and Defense Subcommittee
Network Participants (selection)
- Germany
- Gernot Erler , former Minister of State at the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher , former Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Werner Hoyer , former Minister of State at the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Wolfgang Ischinger , international lawyer and former diplomat
- Katja Keul , member of the German Bundestag
- Roderich Kiesewetter , member of the German Bundestag
- Klaus Naumann , former chairman of the NATO military committee
- Volker Rühe , former Federal Minister of Defense
- Helmut Schmidt , former Federal Minister of Defense and Federal Chancellor
- Richard von Weizsäcker , sixth Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Uta Zapf , Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag
Actions
Ukraine crisis
In July 2014, against the background of the Ukraine crisis , the European Leadership Network issued a position paper warning against an “accidental war” between Russia and the West. "Communication and mutual transparency between the military should be improved in order to avoid accidental clashes."
The "Task Force for Cooperation in Greater Europe" is developing proposals with the aim of making it easier for all countries in the region to break resolutely with the costly legacy of the Cold War and to deal effectively with the new political, economic and security challenges of the 21st century Focus on the century.
The signatories of the declaration include: Malcolm Rifkind , Des Browne , Vyacheslav Iwanowitsch Trubnikow , Igor Iwanow , Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Paul Quilès , Hervé Morin , Anatoli Leonidowitsch Adamischin , Özdem Sanberk , Volker Rühe , Alexei Gromyko and Tarja Cronberg .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sir Adam Thomson KCMG. In: europeanleadershipnetwork.org. Retrieved January 7, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Executive Board. In: europeanleadershipnetwork.org. Retrieved January 7, 2017 (English).
- ^ The European Leadership Network (ELN) works to create the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons. ( Memento from August 1, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ About. In: europeanleadershipnetwork.org. Retrieved January 7, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: 80 bodies from the MH17 crash not yet recovered. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. July 31, 2014, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Conflict with Russia: Well-known security politicians accidentally warn of war. In: Spiegel Online . July 31, 2014, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ dpa: Experts warn of accidental military escalation. In: handelsblatt.com . July 31, 2014, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ July 2014 Position Paper II
- ↑ Crisis Management in Europe in the Context of Events in Ukraine. In: europeanleadershipnetwork.org. July 31, 2014, accessed January 7, 2017 .