Europeans Want America to Stay in Iraq
Is anyone familiar with this Atlantic Initiative?
The Atlantic Community was conceived in 2006 by the Atlantic Initiative, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Berlin and an office in Washington DC. Through their work on the website Global Agenda to revitalize the German foreign policy community, the founders of the Atlantic Initiative recognized the need for a new English-language venture that would strengthen transatlantic ties and reinforce the idea that today's transatlantic agenda is global. The Atlantic Community is supported by a start-up grant from the European Recovery Program fund of the German government's Ministry for Economics and Technology (BMWi), and with personal investment from founders Jan-Friedrich Kallmorgen and Dr. Johannes Bohnen.
I can't find any dirt on it, and wikipedia refers to it as non-partisan. But yikes. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
http://www.atlantische-initiative.org/root/index.php?lang=en&page_id=91&preview=true&PHP SESSID=85f4024e8445fac6fcf0c0254a9e0316
but it seems like a pretty straight forward lobbying group. on the board are people from: Allianz AG, BP,
Interesting names on the advisory board: Prof. Dr. Arnulf Baring, Historian, Berlin Hans-Ulrich Klose, SPD - grand old "lady" of foreign relations in the SPD Cem Özdemir, Member of European Parliament for the Greens Prof. Dr. H.c. Horst M. Teltschlik - Kohl's right hand man even those named are all "leftisch" they are also all known atlanticists.
The others I have not heard before, which reflects more my ignorance.. Jan-Friedrich is mentioned here: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/27/schroeder.us/index.html
http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week/2007/070615/politics2.html
on the German embassy site
