European Council on Foreign Relations
Founded in , 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.
Origins
ECFR was founded in by Mark Leonard together with a council of fifty founding members, chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer, and Mabel van Oranje.
Headquarters
ECFR is headquartered in Berlin, and has offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Warsaw and Sofia. 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.
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
Sixty Minutes with Mauro Petriccione, Director-General for Climate Action of the European Commission
Fri, Feb 26, AM &#; PM EST
| Watch the George Washington University and the Security and Sustainability Forum for the fifth webinar in SSF&#;s Leadership in Our Time webinar series. Mauro Petriccione will be interviewed by Atlantic Council Senior Fellow, Amb. András Simonyi. Mauro Petriccione is the Director-General for Climate Action, in charge of overseeing the climate elements of the European Green Deal. He is the highest-ranking European Civil Servant whose area of responsibility is climate. Mr. Petriccione has 33 years of experience at the European Commission, where he has held various positions, with a focus on trade policy. Ambassador Andras Simonyi will discuss with Mr. Petriccione the: &#; European Green Deal &#; Challenges Europe faces meeting its net-zero ambitions for &#; Milestones of this journey, the role of government and private sector &#; European policies for a climate-friendly post-COVID recovery. They will also discuss the future of cooperation with the United States in the field of climate in The singular career of Mauro Petriccione, the EU’s ‘born negotiator’There are two ways to make big things happen in the European Union&#;s capital: be an asshole or be like Raffaele Mauro Petriccione. The director general of the EU&#;s climate change division, known to most as Mauro, died suddenly last month from a heart attack, aged He was barely known beyond the world of high-level European policy and diplomacy. But he had one of the superlative EU careers, marked in its final decade by a rapid-fire set of historic achievements: cinching three vital EU free-trade agreements, designing its Climate Law and crafting the European Green Deal — a year plan to end the Continent’s contribution to climate change. In the rough-and-tumble world of international politics, such a high-achieving career usually leaves a trail of broken and bitter adversaries. POLITICO went looking for them &#; but all Petriccione left behind were warm words and the faint scent of coffee. According to interviews with 19 of his colleagues, political masters and those who sat opposite him through years of tough negotiations, Petriccione embodied a rare amalgam of policy wonk and political craftsm
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