European Leadership Network

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lobby group,deep state recruitment network

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Formation	2011
Headquarters	London,UK
Partners	Konrad Adenauer Foundation,Hanns Seidel Foundation,Chatham House,Elcano Institute,UFV Madrid,IDC Herzliya,NATO,Spain/Ministry/Foreign Affairs,Centro Sefarad Israel,Sino-Israel Global Network,Germany/Ministry/Defence,German Marshall Fund,Brussels Forum,European Policy Centre,DGRIS,International Institute for Counter-Terrorism,Tel Aviv University Institute for National Security Studies,Israel/Ministry/Foreign Affairs,Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique,Federal Academy for Security Policy,Hudson Institute,BBN, Hague Initiative for International Cooperation (,Bertelsman Foundation,Germany/Ministry/Economy,Cybertech,Rusi
Membership	Des Browne, Menzies Campbell, Hikmet Çetin, Rolf Ekéus, Gernot Erler, Søren Gade, Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor Ivanov, Jan Kavan, Ian Kearns, Giorgio La Malfa, Imants Viesturs Liegis, Linas Linkevicius, Bernard Norlain, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Ana Palacio, Elisabeth Rehn, Alain Richard, Malcolm Rifkind, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Volker Rühe, Javier Solana, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, Tarja Cronberg, Federica Mogherini, David Triesman, Shatabhisha Shetty, Stefano Stefanini, Pierre Vimont, Fatmir Mediu, Irina Ghaplanyan, Alexander Kmentt, Wolfgang Petritsch, Vladimir Senko, Willy Claes, Louis Michel, Guy Verhofstadt, Solomon Passy, Todor Tagarev, Davor Božinovic, Budimir Loncar, Ivo Slaus, Jan Hamácek, Jan Kavan, Jakub Kulhánek, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Søren Gade, Mogens Lykketoft, Marina Kaljurand, Mart Laar, Jüri Luik, Merle Maigre, Jaakko Blomberg, Jaakko Iloniemi, Juhani Kaskeala, Jaakko Laajava, Teija Tiilikainen, Raimo Väyrynen, Nicole Ameline, Alain Coldefy, Benoit d’Aboville, Michel Duclos, François Heisbourg, Pierre Lellouche, Nathalie Loiseau, Hervé Morin, Bernard Norlain, Paul Quilès, Alain Richard, Hubert Védrine, Pierre Vimont, Valeri Chechelashvili, Tedo Japaridze, Eka Tkeshelashvili, Niels Annen, Heinrich Brauss, Karl-Heinz Brunner, Daniela De Ridder, Gernot Erler, Werner Hoyer, Angela Kane, Katja Keul, Roderich Kiesewetter, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Walter Kolbow, Klaus Mangold, David McAllister, Klaus Naumann, Norbert Röttgen, Rudolf Scharping, Nils Schmid, Ulf Schneider, Karsten Voigt, Klaus Wittmann, Uta Zapf, Balázs Csuday, János Martonyi, Anita Orban, Eoghan Murphy, Giancarlo Aragona, Margherita Boniver, Francesco Calogero, Vincenzo Camporini, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Massimo D'Alema, Marta Dassù, Giampaolo Di Paola, Piero Fassino, Gianfranco Fini, Giorgio La Malfa, Arturo Parisi, ia Quartapelle, Carlo Schaerf, Stefano Silvestri, Stefano Stefanini, Nathalie Tocci, Carlo Trezza, Imants Viesturs Liegis, Audronius Ažubalis, Linas Linkevicius, Renatas Norkus, Vygaudas Ušackas, atmir Besimi, Nikola Dimitrov, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Klaas de Vries, Angelien Eijsink, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, Bert Koenders, Marietje Schaake, Hans van den Broek, Espen Barth Eide, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Kjell Magne Bondevik, Kåre Willoch, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewic, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Sławomir Dębski, Bogdan Klich, Adam Kobieracki, Radosław Sikorski, Ricardo Baptista Leite, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Pavel Andreev, Alexey Arbatov, Sergey Batsanov, Alexander Bessmertnykh, Evgeny Buzhinskiy, Anatoly Diakov, Vladimir Dvorkin, Alexander Dynkin, Igor Ivanov, Andrey Kortunov, Vladimir Lukin, Fyodor Lukyanov, Boris Pankin, Dmitry Polikanov, Sergey Rogov, Dmitri Trenin, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, Igor Yurgens, Konstantin Samofalov, Goran Svilanović, Boris Tadić, Miroslav Lajčák, Jorge Domecq, Narcís Serra, Hans Blix, Ingvar Carlsson, Rolf Ekéus, Gunnar Hökmark, Anna Jardfelt, Henrik Salander, Mustafa Aydin, Hikmet Çetin, Ünal Çeviköz, Vahit Erdem, Osman Faruk Loğoğlu, Tacan Ildem, Mustafa Kibaroglu, Özdem Sanberk, Ahmet Üzümcü, Oleksandr Chalyi, Anatoliy Grytsenko, Sergii Leshchenko, Mustafa Nayyem, Volodymyr Ogrysko, Borys Tarasyuk, Bob Ainsworth, Michael Ancram, Joyce Anelay, James Arbuthnot, Catherine Ashton, Margaret Beckett, Michael Boyce, Tony Brenton, Des Browne, Alistair Burt, Menzies Campbell, Charles Clarke, Alfred Dubs, Stephen Gethins, Charles Guthrie, David Hannay, Nick Harvey, Douglas Hurd, John Kerr, Tom King, John McColl, Tom McKane, Madeleine Moon, David Owen, David Ramsbotham, Martin Rees, David Richards, Peter Ricketts, Malcolm Rifkind, George Robertson, John Stanley, Elizabeth Symons, David Triesman, Tom Tugendhat, William Wallace, Alan West, Shirley Williams
Israeli action group to empower "friends of Israel" among European leaders.

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" by creating a Zionist-oriented interest group in Europe at the highest political and economic level.

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. The selected political, military, diplomatic, civil society and business leaders from across wider Europe are chosen from all parties ("non-partisan" and "impartially"). ELNET also brings "high-level delegations" on junkets to Israel to "experience the realities on the ground".

Own words

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.

Censorship

Among the actions promoted by ELNET is the adoption, by each European State, of the definitions of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, opening the door for censorship and use of the police and legal system. Thus, for example, criticism of Israel's legitimacy is defined as anti-Semitism, as is making claims that Jews control the media and the economy, denying the Holocaust, and accusing Jews of being more loyal to Israel than their own countries. Italy adopted the IHRA definitions in 2020.

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

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.

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."