European Endowment for Democracy
vom 06.03.2013
Emerging
Leaders
(Own report) - The EU has
created a new foundation to promote subversive forces in countries neighboring the EU. This institution, known as the
"European Endowment for Democracy" (EED), disposes of a budget of
millions of Euros and is destined to support oppositional circles in countries
bordering the EU to the east and south. Officially, its purpose is to
"promote democracy," however German government advisors are demanding
that, if a rapid overthrow is the objective, the foundation should even risk
promoting forces "that will later turn out to be non-democrats." The EED's model is the
Pro-Western,
Dissident
The EED was created on the
2010 initiative of the Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw
Sikorski.
Party
Promotion
According to its statutes,
the EED aims at supporting "pro-democratic tendencies and other
pro-democratic actors," social movements and non-government organizations,
independent media and above all "emerging leaders."[2] Finances are
among its primary means. The initial EED budget has been set at 14 million
Euros. The foundation also aims at developing its own on-site activities, not
more explicitly described. The EED's concrete support
for political parties is not precluded - a flagrant interference in the
democratic electoral process of foreign nations. Two German European
parliamentarians hold decisive positions in the organization's complicated organigram. Elmar Brok (CDU) directs the Board of Governors, which embeds the
EU member countries and European Parliament and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (FDP) has been delegated to the seven-member
Executive Committee. Jerzy Pomianowski,
former State Secretary in
Overt,
rather than Covert Action
As Pomianowski
declared, the EED was conceived along the lines of the "National Endowment
for Democracy" (NED). NED's activity in Eastern
Europe "before and after the fall of communism" serves as model.[3] At the beginning of the 1990s, the US mainstream press
had already clearly assessed the situation, reporting that in the late 1980s,
NED was doing "openly, what had once been unspeakably covert" and the
job of the CIA - "dispensing money to anti-communist forces behind the
Iron Curtain."[4] NED financed civic forums, journals and video centers, and the means flowed openly to partisans of the
cause in the name of civil society and democracy. "The CIA's old concept of
covert action," which has gotten the agency "into such trouble during
the past 40 years," may be "obsolete." Nowadays, "sensible
activities to support
The
Party-Affiliated Foundations
The fact that
Even
Against the Law
Statements of the founding
director, as well as those by German government advisors, indicate that the EED's will to overthrow governments could supersede that of
applying rules of law and democracy. Support for opposition groups, can be
furnished, in principle, also where it is perceived as an inimical act,
declared Jerzy Pomianowski
recently in a radio interview. The foundation "perhaps may not have the
formal right to be active everywhere," he announced to the press,
"but we can do it."[9]
Non-Democrats
Last year, the German Institute
for International and Security Affairs (SWP) shed light on the types of groups
the EED will seek to promote. According to the SWP, experience shows that often
it is only possible over time to discern, if "behind the veil of
democratic rhetoric," the opposition groups "also harbor
the corresponding values and orientation." If a rapid overthrow is the
objective, one will, "inevitably promote forces,
that will later turn out to be non-democrats." This risk must be taken,
according to SWP. The EED should "consciously and pro-actively" also
promote those groups, "whose development is unpredictable."[10]
Quellen: http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/58554 )
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58516
[1] see
also Der Schleier
demokratischer Rhetorik
[2] Statutes: European Endowment for Democracy
[3] Does Europe Need an Endowment for Democracy? carnegieeurope.eu 14.01.2013
[4] Innocence Abroad: The New World of Spyless Coups; The Washington Post
22.09.1991
[5] see also Deutschlands Netzwerke im
Osten, The
Boxer's Punch and Der
Schlag des Boxers (II)
[6] see also A Relaxed and Comfortable
Putsch
[7] see also The Naumann Caucus
[8] see also Ganz liberal geputscht
[9] Neue Stiftung soll Demokratie rund um die EU fördern; www.welt.de 11.01.2013
[10] Solveig Richter, Julia Leininger: Flexible und unbürokratische
Demokratieförderung durch die EU? Der Europäische Demokratiefonds zwischen
Wunsch und Wirklichkeit, SWP-Aktuell 46, August 2012. See also Der
Schleier demokratischer Rhetorik
Übersetzung
Die EU hat eine neue Stiftung zur Förderung subversiver Kräfte in ihren
Nachbarstaaten gegründet. Die Institution firmiert als "European Endowment
for Democracy" (EED, "Europäische Demokratiestiftung"), verfügt über einen Millionenetat
und soll oppositionelle Kreise in den östlich und südlich an die EU
grenzendenLändern unterstützen. Offizieller Zweck ist die "Förderung von
Demokratie"; tatsächlich fordern Berliner Regierungsberater, die Stiftung
solle, wenn ein rascher Umsturz angestrebt
werde, auch die Förderung von Kräften in Kauf nehmen, "die sich zu einem
späteren Zeitpunkt als Nicht-Demokratenentpuppen". Erklärtes Vorbild der
EED ist die US-Stiftung "National Endowment for Democracy" (NED),
über die es in Washington heißt, sie führe frühere CIA-Umsturz-Aktivitäten öffentlich fort.
Zentrale EED-Posten haben zwei deutsche Abgeordnete aus dem Europäischen
Parlament inne. Geschäftsführer ist ein
polnischer Diplomat, der ankündigt, in den EED-Zielgebieten womöglich auch gegen
geltendes Recht tätig zu werden. Die personelle Konstellation deutet klar
darauf hin, dass mit den ersten Stiftungs-Aktivitäten in den östlich an die EU
grenzenden Staaten zu rechnen ist,
insbesondere in Belarus und der Ukraine. Die operative Tätigkeit soll im Sommer
aufgenommen werden.
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