Transatlantic Policy Network

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The Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) is a lobbying organization for European and American corporations that want to influence cooperation between the EU and the USA. It was founded in 1992 on the initiative of the USA. The headquarters are in Washington, DC and in Brussels.

Organizational structure and goals

Members are companies, economic institutes and members of the American Congress as well as members of the European Parliament who actively pursue and pursue the implementation of the projects developed in the TPN in the parliaments. One such project has been the creation of a transatlantic economic area since 2003, which, however, met with resistance in the EU Commission, then since 2013 the creation of the transatlantic free trade area TTIP . It is also called for to promote the global operational capability of the EU and NATO armed forces as well as the mutual opening of the arms markets.

The chairman is (2018) the British Conservative MEP James Elles , who is also a member of the steering committee of the European Internet Foundation . A steering committee, a parliamentary committee and an economic committee each exist for the USA and Europe.

Members

The network includes over 100 European and US parliamentarians. Well-known members are the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU MEP (until 2019) Elmar Brok , the CSU MEP and financial politician Markus Ferber , the SPD MEP Jo Leinen , the FDP MEP Alexander Graf Lambsdorff as well as the Irish former EU Commissioner and Chairman of Goldmann Sachs Peter Sutherland .

The following groups were business members in 2013 : Allianz - Amgen - AT&T - BASF - Bertelsmann AG - Boeing - BP - Caterpillar Inc. - Citigroup - Coca-Cola - Daimler AG - Deutsche Bank - Dow Chemical - Ericsson - Facebook - GE - Hewlett Packard - IBM - JP Morgan - LVMH - The McGraw-Hill Companies - Michelin - Microsoft - Nestlé - Oracle - Pfizer International - SAP AG - Siemens AG - SWIFT - Syngenta - Time Warner - Tyco International - United Technologies Corporation - UPS - Walt Disney Company .

There are also chambers of commerce and employers' associations.

Cooperating members are u. B. Think tanks such as the Aspen Institute Berlin and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens van Scherpenberg: The Integration of the Atlantic Economic Area - SWP Study, Science and Politics Foundation , Berlin, September 2006, p. 6.
  2. ^ A Strategy to Strengthen Transatlantic Partnership. Transatlantic Policy Network, Washington / Brussels, December 4, 2003.
  3. ↑ According to TPN website as of 11/2013.