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Gerald Knaus (born 1970 [1] ) is an Austrian social scientist. He is a co-founder of the think tank European Stability Initiative (ESI).[ citation needed ]
Knaus was born in Bramberg am Wildkogel, Austria in 1970. He studied philosophy, political science and economics in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna.[ citation needed ]
In 1999, Knaus co-founded the European Stability Initiative, a liberalist think tank, in Sarajevo. The organization has received funding from organizations linked to American billionaire George Soros. [2]
Today, the ESI has offices in Berlin, Brussels, and Vienna.[ citation needed ]
Since 2015, Knaus has been an outspoken supporter of the migration policies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. [3] In 2019, he was appointed by Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Gerd Müller to serve on a commission in charge of drafting recommendations on how to address the causes of displacement and migration. [4]
In 2020 he published the book "Welche Grenzen brauchen wir?" ("What Borders Do We Need?") on the future of asylum and migration policy. [5]
Erhard Busek is an Austrian politician from the Christian-conservative People's Party (ÖVP). Throughout his political career, he was widely regarded as one of the leaders of the party's liberal wing. He is coordinator of the South-Eastern Cooperative Initiative (SECI) and chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe.
Friedrich Merz is a German lawyer and politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1989 to 1994 and was elected to the Bundestag from 1994 until 2009, where he chaired the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 2000 to 2002.
Elmar Altvater was Professor of Political Science at the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Free University of Berlin, before retiring on 30 September 2004. He continued to work at the Institute, and published articles and books.
Rita Süssmuth is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She served as the 10th President of the Bundestag.
After the Revolutions of 1989 throughout Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a large number of economic refugees and immigrants from Greece's neighboring countries, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, as well as from more distant countries such as Georgia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, arrived in Greece, mostly as illegal immigrants, to seek employment. The vast majority of Albanians in Greece is estimated to be between 60–65% of the total number of immigrants in Greece. According to official data (2008), there are 459,390 holders of Albanian citizenship in Greece.
Henryk Marcin Broder is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and TV personality.
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy is an independent, non-profit economic research institute and think tank based in Kiel, Germany. In 2017, it was ranked as one of the top 50 most influential think tanks in the world and was also ranked in the top 15 in the world for economic policy specifically. German business newspaper, Handelsblatt, referred to the Institute as "Germany's most influential economic think tank", while Die Welt, stated that "The best economists in the world are in Kiel".
Paul Bernd Spahn is emeritus professor of public finance at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Karl Theodor Maria Georg Achaz Eberhardt Josef Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU). He was parliamentary secretary of state in the Chancellor's Office in the government of Kurt Georg Kiesinger from 1967 until 1969, as well as the foreign policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag. Guttenberg was perceived as a hardline conservative anticommunist as well as a convinced proponent of European integration. His work was mostly within the field of foreign policy.
Norbert Röttgen is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was Federal Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2009 to May 2012.
Graeme Maxton is a British climate change economist and writer. He is the author, or co-author, of seven books on climate change, the economic system and the automotive industry.
Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, since 2002.
The European Stability Initiative (ESI) is a think tank focusing on South East Europe and enlargement of the European Union. It has offices in Berlin, Brussels and Istanbul.
Mark Lars Carsten Hauptmann is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2013 until 2021.
Detlef Seif is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 2009.
Rainer Grießhammer is a German chemist and member of the executive board of the Oeko-Institut.
Caviar diplomacy is a lobbying strategy of Azerbaijan, consisting of costly invitations of foreign politicians and employees of international organizations to Azerbaijan at the expense of the host country. Caviar Diplomacy also includes expensive gifts presented as "a tribute to the Eastern tradition."
Stefan Heinrich Berger is a German politician CDU and economist. He was elected as Member of the European Parliament in 2019 and is part of the group of the European People's Party. Previously, he was a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Gerald Hüther is a German neurobiologist and author of popular science books and other writings.
Eduard Lintner is a German politician and lobbyist. From 1991 to 1998, he was Parliamentary State Secretary for the Federal Secretary of the Interior and from 1992 to 1998 he was the Drug Enforcement Officer in the Federal Government.
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