European Council on Foreign Relations

European Council on Foreign Relations
Abbreviation	ECFR
Formation	2007
Type	Think tank
Headquarters	Berlin
Location	London; Madrid; Paris; Rome; Sofia; Warsaw; ;
Region served	Europe
Director	Mark Leonard
Website	ecfr.eu

The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a pan-European think tank with offices in seven European capitals.^[2] Launched in October 2007, it conducts research on European foreign and security policy and provides a meeting space for decision-makers, activists and influencers to share ideas. ECFR builds coalitions for change at the European level and promotes informed debate about Europe's role in the world. ECFR has offices in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Warsaw and Sofia.

ECFR was founded in 2007 by Mark Leonard together with a council of fifty founding members, chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer, and Mabel van Oranje, with initial funding from George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Communitas Foundation, Sigrid Rausing, Unicredit and Fundación Para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE).^[3]

ECFR's council brings together over 300 Europeans from across Europe. Currently chaired by Carl Bildt, Lykke Friis and Norbert Röttgen, ECFR's strategic community includes serving foreign ministers, former prime ministers, members of national parliaments and European Parliament, EU Commissioners, former NATO secretaries generals, thinkers, journalists and business leaders. The council gathers once a year as a full body for the annual council meeting, hosted in a different European capital each year. The council is the strongest and most visible expression of ECFR's pan-European identity.

^ Erlanger, Steven, "For Europe, There's a New Threat in Town: The U.S.", The New York Times, 2 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
^ ECFR About
^ "About ECFR | European Council on Foreign Relations". 6 February 2015. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

[1] Erlanger, Steven, "For Europe, There's a New Threat in Town: The U.S.", The New York Times, 2 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-02-02.

[2] ECFR About

[3] "About ECFR | European Council on Foreign Relations". 6 February 2015. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

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